On Computational Offloading in Massive MIMO-Enabled Next-Generation Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

Next-generation wireless communication networks are expected to support massive connectivity with high data rate, low power consumption, and computational latency. However, it can significantly enhance the existing network complexity, which results in high latency. To ease this situation, mobile edge cloud and massive multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) have recently emerged as the effective solutions. Mobile edge cloud has the ability to overcome the constraints of low power and finite computational resources in next-generation communication systems by allowing devices to offload their extensive computation to maximize the computation rate. On the other hand, MIMO can enhance network spectral efficiency by using large number of antenna elements. The integration of mobile edge cloud with massive MIMO also helps to increase the energy efficiency of the devices; as a result, more bits are computed with minimal energy consumption. In this work, a mathematical model is formulated by considering the devices’ energy constraint, which is nonconvex in nature. Following that, to overcome this, we transformed the original optimization problem using the first approximation method and solved the partial offloading schemes. Results reveal that the proposed scheme outperforms the others by considering computational rate as a performance matrix.