Multi-Destination Cooperative Task Offloading in Blockchain-Based Vehicular Edge Computing Networks

Abstract

As a novel computing paradigm, the Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) network provides an additional avenue for onboard task execution for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in unmanned systems. In a VEC network, CAVs can offload tasks to different external servers for execution and obtain results. However, existing task offloading studies only focus on the one-to-one offloading of onboard tasks to edge servers, ignoring the requirements of parallel task execution and security. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based multi-destination cooperative task offloading architecture in a VEC network. Based on this architecture, we analyze the task offloading and blockchain models and formulate a multi-destination cooperative task offloading optimization problem. Finally, we compare the performance of different multi-destination task offloading methods in simulations and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture and optimization.