Computation-Efficient Offloading and Trajectory Scheduling for Multi-UAV Assisted Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

The emergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is of great significance for the prospective development of Internet of Things (IoT). The additional computation capability and extensive network coverage provide energy-limited smart mobile devices (SMDs) with more opportunities to experience diverse intelligent applications. In this paper, a computation efficiency maximization problem is formulated in a multi-UAV assisted MEC system, where both computation bits and energy consumption are considered. Based on the partial computation offloading mode, user association, allocation of central processing unit (CPU) cycle frequency, power and spectrum resources, as well as trajectory scheduling of UAVs are jointly optimized. Due to the non-convexity of the problem and the coupling among variables, we propose an iterative optimization algorithm with double-loop structure to find the optimal solution. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can obtain higher computation efficiency than baseline schemes while guaranteeing the quality of computation service.