Energy-efficient task offloading strategy in mobile edge computing for resource-intensive mobile applications

dc.creatorMahenge, Michael Pendo John
dc.creatorLi, Chunlin
dc.creatorSanga, Camilius A
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-09T06:52:26Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T07:09:56Z
dc.date.available2023-08-09T06:52:26Z
dc.date.created2023-08-09T06:52:26Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractMobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been considered a promising solution that can address capacity and perfor- mance challenges in legacy systems such as Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). In particular, such challenges include intolerable delay, congestion in the core network, insufficient Quality of Experience (QoE), high cost of resource utility, such as energy and bandwidth. The aforementioned challenges originate from limited resources in mobile devices, the multi-hop connection between end-users and the cloud, high pressure from computation- intensive and delay-critical applications. Considering the limited resource setting at the MEC, improving the efficiency of task offloading in terms of both energy and delay in MEC applications is an important and urgent problem to be solved. In this paper, the key objective is to propose a task offloading scheme that minimizes the overall energy consumption along with satisfying capacity and delay requirements. Thus, we propose a MEC- assisted energy-efficient task offloading scheme that leverages the cooperative MEC framework. To achieve en- ergy efficiency, we propose a novel hybrid approach established based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) to solve the optimization problem. The proposed approach considers efficient resource allocation such as sub-carriers, power, and bandwidth for offloading to guarantee minimum energy consumption. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed strategy is computational-efficient compared to benchmark methods. Moreover, it improves energy utilization, energy gain, response delay, and offloading utility.
dc.identifierhttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5569
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.costech.or.tz/handle/20.500.14732/96033
dc.languageen
dc.publisherScience Direct
dc.subjectMobile edge computing
dc.subjectQuality of experience
dc.subjectTask offloading
dc.subjectCommunication networks
dc.subjectParticle swarm optimization
dc.titleEnergy-efficient task offloading strategy in mobile edge computing for resource-intensive mobile applications
dc.typeArticle

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