Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization for Multi-UAV-Assisted Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) has been considered as a promising approach to offering extensive coverage and massive computing capacities for Internet of Things (IoT). In this letter, we propose a novel multi-UAV-assisted multi-access MEC model by allowing each IoT user to offload task bits to multiple MEC servers deployed at UAVs simultaneously for parallel computing, which can effectively reduce the energy consumption of users and UAVs. The weighted sum energy consumption of UAVs and users is minimized by jointly optimizing the bit allocation, transmit power, CPU frequency, bandwidth allocation and UAVs' trajectories. Due to the non-convexity of the formulated problem, it is decomposed into two subproblems and a joint resource allocation and trajectory design algorithm is proposed by alternative optimization. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm with multiple radio access outperforms the fixed trajectory, fixed bandwidth allocation and the single access schemes.