Research on MEC computing offload strategy for joint optimization of delay and energy consumption

The decision-making process for computational offloading is a critical aspect of mobile edge computing, and various offloading decision strategies are strongly linked to the calculated latency and energy consumption of the mobile edge computing system. This paper proposes an offloading scheme based on an enhanced sine-cosine optimization algorithm (SCAGA) designed for the "edge-end" architecture scenario within edge computing. The research presented in this paper covers the following aspects: (1) Establishment of computational resource allocation models and computational cost models for edge computing scenarios; (2) Introduction of an enhanced sine and cosine optimization algorithm built upon the principles of Levy flight strategy sine and cosine optimization algorithms, incorporating concepts from roulette wheel selection and gene mutation commonly found in genetic algorithms; (3) Execution of simulation experiments to evaluate the SCAGA-based offloading scheme, demonstrating its ability to effectively reduce system latency and optimize offloading utility. Comparative experiments also highlight improvements in system latency, mobile user energy consumption, and offloading utility when compared to alternative offloading schemes.