Mobile Edge Computing With Wireless Backhaul: Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation

Abstract

Considered as a key technology in 5G networks, mobile edge computing (MEC) can support intensive computation for energy-constrained and computation-limited mobile users (MUs) through offloading various computation and service functions to the edge of mobile networks. In addition to MEC, wireless heterogeneous networks will play an important role in providing high transmission capacity for MUs in 5G, where wireless backhaul is a cost-effective and viable solution to solve the expensive backhaul deployment issue. In this paper, we consider a setting, where MUs can offload their computations to the MEC server through a small cell base station (SBS), the SBS connects to the macro BS through a wireless backhaul, and computation resource at the MEC server is shared among offloading MUs. First, we formulate a joint optimization problem with the goal of minimizing the system-wide computation overhead. This is a mixed-integer problem and hard to derive the optimal solution. To solve this problem, we propose to decompose it into two subproblems, namely the offloading decision subproblem and the joint backhaul bandwidth and computation resource allocation subproblem. An algorithm, namely JOBCA, is proposed to obtain a feasible solution to the original problem by solving two subproblems iteratively. Finally, numerical results are conducted to verify the performance improvement of the proposed algorithm over two baseline algorithms and the close performance of the proposed algorithm compared with the centralized exhaustive search. INDEX TERMS Computation offloading, heterogeneous networks, mobile edge computing, resource allocation, wireless backhaul.

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