Affiliation:
1. College of Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Abstract
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a novel paradigm that offers numerous possibilities for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In typical use cases, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be applied to monitoring and logistics have received wide attention. However, subject to their own flexible maneuverability, limited computational capability, and battery energy, UAVs need to offload computation-intensive tasks to ensure the quality of service. In this paper, we solve this problem for UAV systems in a 5G heterogeneous network environment by proposing an innovative distributed framework that jointly considers transmission assessment and task offloading. Specifically, we devised a fuzzy logic-based offloading assessment mechanism at the UAV side, which can adaptively avoid risky wireless links based on the motion state of an UAV and performance transmission metrics. We introduce a multi-agent advantage actor–critic deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to enable the UAVs to optimize the system utility by learning the best policies from the environment. This requires decisions on computing modes as well as the choices of radio access technologies (RATs) and MEC servers in the case of offloading. The results validate the convergence and applicability of our scheme. Compared with the benchmarks, the proposed scheme is superior in many aspects, such as reducing task completion delay and energy consumption.
Funder
National Key R&D Program of China
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Computer Science Applications,Aerospace Engineering,Information Systems,Control and Systems Engineering
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