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Resource allocation and trajectory optimization for air-ground cooperative mobile edge computing systems

Li Zhihao
Li Junjie
Cui Miao
Zhang Guangchi
School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

Abstract

With the popularity and application of Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) , vehicles need to accomplish a large number of real-time computational tasks. To enhance the wireless connectivity and computational capability of the vehicles, the introduction of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the advantages of high mobility and on-demand deployment for assistance is an effective method. Therefore, this paper studies an air-ground collaborative mobile edge computing system for the IoV, which consists of mobile edge computing servers deployed at a UAV and ground base stations, respectively, to collaborate in providing communication and computation services for vehicles. In order to minimize the maximum average communication and computational delay of the vehicles, this paper studied a problem of jointly optimizing communication bandwidth allocation between the UAV and ground base stations, computational task offload ratio allocation, UAV trajectory and computational resource allocation. To solve this non-convex optimization problem, this paper proposed an efficient alternating optimization algorithm based on block coordinate descent and successive convex optimization methods, which is decomposed into four sub-problems: bandwidth allocation, computational task offload ratio allocation, UAV trajectory optimization and computational resource allocation, and introduced slack variables and utilized a first-order Taylor expansion to solve the sub-problems alternately and iteratively. Simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm can effectively reduce the average communication and computational delay of the vehicle compared to the multiple benchmark schemes. This demonstrates the importance of air-ground collaboration between the UAV and ground base stations to enhance the communication and computation capabilities of the IoV.

Foundation Support

广东省海洋经济发展项目(粤自然资合[2023]24号)
广东省科技计划项目(2023A0505050127,2022A0505050023,2022A0505020008)
广东省基础与应用基础研究基金项目(2023A1515011980)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2024.04.0119
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Accepted Paper, Vol. 41, 2024 No. 12

Publish History

[2024-09-02] Accepted Paper

Cite This Article

李智灏, 李俊杰, 崔苗, 等. 空地协同移动边缘计算系统的资源分配和轨迹优化 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2024, 41 (12). (2024-09-11). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2024.04.0119. (Li Zhihao, Li Junjie, Cui Miao, et al. Resource allocation and trajectory optimization for air-ground cooperative mobile edge computing systems [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2024, 41 (12). (2024-09-11). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2024.04.0119. )

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Application Research of Computers, founded in 1984, is an academic journal of computing technology sponsored by Sichuan Institute of Computer Sciences under the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province.

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