• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.2490-2506
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• 2022

In Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), attackers can speculate and mine sensitive user information by eavesdropping wireless channel status and offloading usage pattern, leading to user privacy leakage. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a Privacy-preserving and Energy-efficient Offloading Algorithm (PEOA) based on Lyapunov optimization. In this method, a continuous Markov process offloading model with a buffer queue strategy is built first. Then the amount of privacy of offloading usage pattern in wireless channel is defined. Finally, by introducing the Lyapunov optimization, the problem of minimum average energy consumption in continuous state transition process with privacy constraints in the infinite time domain is transformed into the minimum value problem of each timeslot, which reduces the complexity of algorithms and helps obtain the optimal solution while maintaining low energy consumption. The experimental results show that, compared with other methods, PEOA can maintain the amount of privacy accumulation in the system near zero, while sustaining low average energy consumption costs. This makes it difficult for attackers to infer sensitive user information through offloading usage patterns, thus effectively protecting user privacy and safety.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.794-815
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• 2023

The rapid development of mobile communication not only has made the industry gradually diversified, but also has enhanced the service quality requirements of users. In this regard, it is imperative to consider jointly network slicing and mobile edge computing. The former mainly ensures the requirements of varied vertical services preferably, and the latter solves the conflict between the user's own energy and harsh latency. At present, the integration of the two faces many challenges and need to carry out at different levels. The main target of the paper is to minimize the energy consumption of the system, and introduce a multi-slice joint task offloading and resource allocation scheme for massive multiple input multiple output enabled heterogeneous networks. The problem is formulated by collaborative optimizing offloading ratios, user association, transmission power and resource slicing, while being limited by the dissimilar latency and rate of multi-slice. To solve it, assign the optimal problem to two sub-problems of offloading decision and resource allocation, then solve them separately by exploiting the alternative optimization technique and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Finally, a novel slices task offloading and resource allocation algorithm is proposed to get the offloading and resource allocation strategies. Numerous simulation results manifest that the proposed scheme has certain feasibility and effectiveness, and its performance is better than the other baseline scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1238-1259
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• 2024

Previous studies on joint optimization of computation offloading and service caching policies in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) have often neglected the impact of dependency-aware subtasks, edge server resource constraints, and multiple users on policy formulation. To remedy this deficiency, this paper proposes a many-objective joint optimization dependency-aware task offloading and service caching model (MaJDTOSC). MaJDTOSC considers the impact of dependencies between subtasks on the joint optimization problem of task offloading and service caching in multi-user, resource-constrained MEC scenarios, and takes the task completion time, energy consumption, subtask hit rate, load variability, and storage resource utilization as optimization objectives. Meanwhile, in order to better solve MaJDTOSC, a many-objective evolutionary algorithm TSMSNSGAIII based on a three-stage mating selection strategy is proposed. Simulation results show that TSMSNSGAIII exhibits an excellent and stable performance in solving MaJDTOSC with different number of users setting and can converge faster. Therefore, it is believed that TSMSNSGAIII can provide appropriate sub-task offloading and service caching strategies in multi-user and resource-constrained MEC scenarios, which can greatly improve the system offloading efficiency and enhance the user experience.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권9호
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• pp.871-877
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• 2017

최근 모바일 기기와 같이 하드웨어 성능이 부족한 기기에서 연산량이 많은 어플리케이션을 효과적으로 수행할 수 있는 방법들이 많이 연구되고 있다. 연산 오프로딩 기법이란 모바일 기기에서 하드웨어 성능이 좋은 서버로 복잡한 연산을 보내서 수행 한 뒤 결과를 받아서 반영하는 방법이다. 연산 오프로딩 기법의 어려움 중 하나는 서버와 클라이언트 사이에서 동작 중인 어플리케이션의 상태를 주고받는 일이다. 스냅샷 기반의 연산 오프로딩 기법은 스냅샷을 이용하여 웹 어플리케이션의 상태를 쉽게 전송할 수 있도록 하였다. 하지만 HTML5 캔버스를 사용하는 웹 어플리케이션의 경우 스냅샷이 캔버스의 상태를 포함하지 못하는 문제가 있어서 스냅샷 기반의 연산 오프로딩을 적용할 수 없었다. 본 연구에서는 스냅샷에 캔버스의 상태를 저장할 수 있는 코드 생성 기술을 제안하여 캔버스를 사용하는 웹 어플리케이션에도 스냅샷 기반 연산 오프로딩 기법을 사용할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2015년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.33-34
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• 2015

Continuous improvements of network infrastructures and mobile data offloading strategies are among the solutions of cellular providers to cope with the increase in mobile data demand. These options requires a lot of cost and time to implement. Few researches have been conducted to assess the applicability of Pocket Switched Network (PSN) to support mobile data offloading. In this paper, we present a PSN mobile data-offloading scheme that utilizes mobile users with available connectivity to deliver content-aware data to other mobile users. This paper also aims to evaluate the applicability and feasibility of PSN routing schemes to improve the current strategies in mobile data offloading. The simulation results show admirable results in terms of message delivery and latency.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.4025-4041
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• 2020

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is capable of providing services to smart devices nearby through radio access networks and thus improving service experience of users. In this paper, an offloading strategy for the joint optimization of computing and communication resources in multi-user and multi-MEC overlapping scene was proposed. In addition, under the condition that wireless transmission resources and MEC computing resources were limited and task completion delay was within the maximum tolerance time, the optimization problem of minimizing energy consumption of all users was created, which was then further divided into two subproblems, i.e. offloading strategy and resource allocation. These two subproblems were then solved by the game theory and Lagrangian function to obtain the optimal task offloading strategy and resource allocation plan, and the Nash equilibrium of user offloading strategy games and convex optimization of resource allocation were proved. The simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm could effectively reduce the energy consumption of users.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.68-76
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• 2023

Emerging mobile edge computing (MEC) can be used in battery-constrained Internet of things (IoT). The execution latency of IoT applications can be improved by offloading computation-intensive tasks to an MEC server. Recently, the popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has increased rapidly, and UAV-based MEC systems are receiving considerable attention. In this paper, we propose a dynamic computation offloading paradigm for UAV-based MEC systems, in which a UAV flies over an urban environment and provides edge services to IoT devices on the ground. Since most IoT devices are energy-constrained, we formulate our problem as a Markov decision process considering the energy level of the battery of each IoT device. We also use model-free Q-learning for time-critical tasks to maximize the system utility. According to our performance study, the proposed scheme can achieve desirable convergence properties and make intelligent offloading decisions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.327-347
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• 2024

Edge computing is frequently employed in the Internet of Vehicles, although the computation and communication capabilities of roadside units with edge servers are limited. As a result, to perform distributed machine learning on resource-limited MEC systems, resources have to be allocated sensibly. This paper presents an Improved MADDPG algorithm to overcome the current IoV concerns of high delay and limited offloading utility. Firstly, we employ the MADDPG algorithm for task offloading. Secondly, the edge server aggregates the updated model and modifies the aggregation model parameters to achieve optimal policy learning. Finally, the new approach is contrasted with current reinforcement learning techniques. The simulation results show that compared with MADDPG and MAA2C algorithms, our algorithm improves offloading utility by 2% and 9%, and reduces delay by 29.6%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.3090-3102
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• 2015

The accuracy of an augmented reality (AR) application is highly dependent on the resolution of the object's image and the device's computational processing capability. Naturally, a mobile smart device equipped with a high-resolution camera becomes the best platform for portable AR services. AR applications require significant energy consumption and very fast response time, which are big burdens to the smart device. However, there are very few ways to overcome these burdens. Computation offloading via mobile cloud computing has the potential to provide energy savings and enhance the performance of applications executed on smart devices. Therefore, in this paper, adaptive mobile computation offloading of mobile AR applications is considered in order to determine optimal offloading points that satisfy the required quality of experience (QoE) while consuming minimum energy of the smart device. AR feature extraction based on SURF algorithm is partitioned into sub-stages in order to determine the optimal AR cloud computational offloading point based on conditions of the smart device, wireless and wired networks, and AR service cloud servers. Tradeoffs in energy savings and processing time are explored also taking network congestion and server load conditions into account.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 이동환경에서 이동단말이 핸드오프 시간과 오프로딩 시간을 측정하여 오프로딩의 수행을 판단하는 오프로딩 지연기법을 제안한다. 제안한 기법은 이동단말에서 핸드오프와 오프로딩 지연시간을 비교하여 오프로딩을 결정할 수 있도록 하여 고정노드를 대상으로 구현된 클라우드 컴퓨팅환경의 구조의 변경 없이 이동환경 클라우드 컴퓨팅을 지원한다. 효율성 분석을 위해 기존 연구에서 사용하는 서버와 단말의 에너지 소비측정을 사용하여 기존 방법과 에너지 소비를 비교 분석하였다. 모의실험 결과 오프로딩 지연 기법은 기존 방법보다 에너지 소비를 감소시키면서 유사한 작업수행 시간을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.