Multihop Task Routing in UAV-Assisted Mobile-Edge Computing IoT Networks With Intelligent Reflective Surfaces

The cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground mobile-edge computing (MEC) servers in processing tasks is becoming one of the main research trends of MEC networks. Despite the advantages of UAV-assisted MEC, it is restricted by the limited battery capacity and sensitive energy co...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE internet of things journal 2023-04, Vol.10 (8), p.7174-7188
Hauptverfasser: Shnaiwer, Yousef N., Kouzayha, Nour, Masood, Mudassir, Kaneko, Megumi, Al-Naffouri, Tareq Y.
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Zusammenfassung:The cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground mobile-edge computing (MEC) servers in processing tasks is becoming one of the main research trends of MEC networks. Despite the advantages of UAV-assisted MEC, it is restricted by the limited battery capacity and sensitive energy consumption of UAVs. Unlike the previous works where UAVs are allowed to either process tasks locally or offload them to ground MEC servers, in this article, we propose a multihop task routing solution for Internet of Things (IoT) networks in which a UAV can also relay to another UAV with better connection to a ground MEC server. Furthermore, the UAV can make benefit of existing intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) to further improve task offloading and reduce energy consumption. We show that the problem of minimizing the total energy of UAVs is NP-hard, and we propose a graph-based heuristic solution to solve it. Simulation results show that the proposed graph-based solution outperforms the traditional no UAV-UAV relaying scheme, especially when IRSs are deployed. Furthermore, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is devised to reduce the delay of finding the decisions for the UAVs at the centralized coordinator. Simulations show that the CNN achieves very close energy consumption performance and a remarkable reduction in execution time compared to the graph-based heuristic solution.
ISSN:2327-4662
2327-4662
DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2022.3228863