Throughput-Aware Dynamic Task Offloading Under Resource Constant for MEC With Energy Harvesting Devices

Abstract

With the explosive increase of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, an increasing number of computation-intensive applications are emerging in IoT system. However, most IoT devices are limited by size and location, equipped with low-performance CPUs and low-capacity batteries, which cannot go well with computation-intensive applications. Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as a promising solution to provide computation-intensive and latency-sensitive services in IoT system, but it is still challenging to improve the throughput and extend the battery life of IoT devices under communication constraints. This paper focuses on the task offloading problem for an MEC system with multiple energy harvesting (EH) devices. To accommodate the system dynamics and ensure the system stability in terms of task queue and battery level, we apply Lyapunov optimization theory, and design a computation tasks maximum offloading algorithm to maximize the system throughput. The algorithm can determine the offloading decision in real-time without knowing any statistical information about the system. We first give a series of mathematical analysis to verify the system stability and discuss the performance of the algorithm. In addition, a number of simulation experiments are conducted to present the efficiency of the algorithm.