Delay Minimization for Massive MIMO Assisted Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been envisioned as a promising technology for enhancing the computational capacities of mobile devices, by enabling computational task offloading. In this article, we employ massive multiple-input multiple-output methods to facilitate offloading in MEC. Our objective is to minimize the maximum delay for offloading and computing among the users, which requires a joint allocation of wireless and computational resources. Both perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI) are considered. Under perfect CSI, we derive a semi-closed-form solution for the formulated problem. Under imperfect CSI, since the formulated problem is non-convex, we transform it into a convex one using a successive convex approximation technique and propose an iterative algorithm to solve it. Presented numerical results show the benefits of having a large number of antennas at the base station, and the necessity of performing joint radio and computational resource allocation.