Collaborative Computing Services at Ground, Air, and Space: An Optimization ApproachShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ISSN 0018-9545, E-ISSN 1939-9359, Vol. 73, no 1, p. 1491-1496Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Multi-access edge computing (MEC)-enabled integrated space-air-ground networks have drawn much attention recently, as they can provide communication and computing services to wireless devices in areas that lack terrestrial base stations (TBSs). They could make it possible for battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices to offload their computation tasks to MEC-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted aerial networks and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites and thus reduce their energy consumption and allow them to complete the execution of tasks on time. However, due to the limited computation capacity of the MEC servers at UAVs and satellites, an efficient offloading decision and computation resource allocation scheme is essential. Therefore, this paper investigates the problem of minimizing the latency experienced by the wireless devices in the MEC-enabled integrated space-air-ground network by optimizing the offloading decision while assuring the energy constraints of both devices and UAVs. The problem is proved to be a non-convex problem, and the block successive upper-bound minimization (BSUM) method is proposed as a solution. Finally, extensive simulation results are presented to exhibit the effectiveness of the BSUM algorithm in solving the proposed problem.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. Vol. 73, no 1, p. 1491-1496
Keywords [en]
Task analysis, Autonomous aerial vehicles, Wireless communication, Satellites, Wireless sensor networks, Resource management, Minimization, Block successive upper-bound minimization (BSUM), integrated space-air-ground networks, multi-access edge computing (MEC), resource allocation, task offloading
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-346003DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3304713ISI: 001166813500082Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85168271499OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-346003DiVA, id: diva2:1855009
Note
QC 20240429
2024-04-292024-04-292024-04-29Bibliographically approved