基于移动云计算的计算迁移能效算法

移动云计算可以通过应用任务的计算迁移降低执行延时和改善移动设备能效,但面对多云站点选择时,迁移决策是NP问题。针对该问题,提出一种能效计算迁移算法。为了实现截止期限和预算约束下执行时间与代价的多目标优化,算法将优化过程分解为三步进行。首先根据用户对时间与代价参数的偏好,设计一种CTTPO算法对应用进行分割,生成迁移模块（云端站点执行）和非迁移模块（移动设备执行）;然后为了实现云端多站点间的迁移模块调度,设计一种基于教与学最优化方法的MTS算法,进而产生效率最优的应用调度解;最后设计一种基于动态电压缩放方法的ESM算法,通过多站点的性能缩放进一步降低应用执行能耗。通过两种随机应用结构图进行了仿真实验,实验结果证明,该算法在执行效率、执行代价以及执行能耗上要优于对比算法。     

Energy-efficient multisite offloading policy using Markov decision process for mobile cloud computing

Mobile systems, such as smartphones, are becoming the primary platform of choice for a user’s computational needs. However, mobile devices still suffer from limited resources such as battery life and processor performance. To address these limitations, a popular approach used in mobile cloud computing is computation offloading, where resource-intensive mobile components are offloaded to more resourceful cloud servers. Prior studies in this area have focused on a form of offloading where only a single server is considered as the offloading site. Because there is now an environment where mobile devices can access multiple cloud providers, it is possible for mobiles to save more energy by offloading energy-intensive components to multiple cloud servers. The method proposed in this paper differentiates the data- and computation-intensive components of an application and performs a multisite offloading in a data and process-centric manner. In this paper, we present a novel model to describe the energy consumption of a multisite application execution and use a discrete time Markov chain (DTMC) to model fading wireless mobile channels. We adopt a Markov decision process (MDP) framework to formulate the multisite partitioning problem as a delay-constrained, least-cost shortest path problem on a state transition graph. Our proposed Energy-efficient Multisite Offloading Policy (EMOP) algorithm, built on a value iteration algorithm (VIA), finds the efficient solution to the multisite partitioning problem. Numerical simulations show that our algorithm considers the different capabilities of sites to distribute appropriate components such that there is a lower energy cost for data transfer from the mobile to the cloud. A multisite offloading execution using our proposed EMOP algorithm achieved a greater reduction on the energy consumption of mobiles when compared to a single site offloading execution.     

An energy-efficient task scheduling for mobile devices based on cloud assistant

Mobile cloud computing is an emerging service model to extend the capability and the battery life of mobile devices. Mostly one network application can be decomposed into fine-grained tasks which consist of sequential tasks and parallel tasks. With the assistance of mobile cloud computing, some tasks could be offloaded to the cloud for speeding up executions and saving energy. However, the task offloading results in some additional cost during the communication between cloud and mobile devices. Therefore, this paper proposes an energy-efficient scheduling of tasks, in which the mobile device offloads appropriate tasks to the cloud via a Wi-Fi access point. The scheduling aims to minimize the energy consumption of mobile device for one application under the constraint of total completion time. This task scheduling problem is reconstructed into a constrained shortest path problem and the LARAC method is applied to get the approximate optimal solution. The proposed energy-efficient strategy decreases 81.93% of energy consumption and 25.70% of time at most, compared with the local strategy. Moreover, the applicability and performance of the proposed strategy are verified in different patterns of applications, where the time constraint, the workload ratio between communication and computation are various.     

面向移动边缘计算网络的高能效计算卸载算法

移动边缘计算（mobile edge computing,MEC）是一种高效的技术,通过将计算密集型任务从移动设备卸载到边缘服务器,使终端用户实现高带宽、低时延的目标.移动边缘计算环境下的计算卸载在减轻用户负载和增强终端计算能力等方面发挥着重要作用.考虑了服务缓存,提出一种云-边-端协同的计算卸载框架,在该框架中引入D2D （device-to-device,D2D）通信和机会网络.基于建立的模型,将计算卸载决策问题转化为一个混合整数非线性规划问题,并对无线特性和移动用户之间的非合作博弈交互制定了一个迭代机制来共同确定计算卸载方案.对提出的计算卸载算法从理论上证明了多用户计算卸载博弈模型为严格势力场博弈（exact potential game,EPG）,卸载决策可获得全网范围内的最优效益.考虑到服务器的计算资源、卸载任务数据量和任务延迟需求,提出对用户和MEC服务器之间最佳用户关联匹配算法.最后,模拟结果表明,卸载决策算法具有较快的收敛速度,并在能效方面优于其他基准算法.     

移动边缘环境下面向工作流管理的计算迁移方法

针对移动边缘环境下移动设备大量的能源消耗问题，为了优化移动设备的能源消耗，提出一种能耗感知的工作流计算迁移（EOW）方法。首先，基于排队论分析边缘设备中计算任务的平均等待时间，建立了移动设备的时间模型和能耗模型；然后，基于非支配排序算法（NSGA-Ⅲ）提出对应的计算迁移方法，对工作流的计算任务进行合理的分配，将一部分计算任务留在移动设备处理，或者迁移到边缘计算平台和远程云端，实现每个移动设备的节能目标；最后，通过CloudSim仿真平台对提出的计算迁移方法进行仿真和对比实验。实验结果表明，EOW方法能够明显地减少每个移动设备的能源消耗，同时满足每一个工作流的截止时间的要求。     

基于光纤-无线网络的协同计算卸载算法

随着无源光网络的发展,光纤-无线网络能同时支持集中式云和边缘云计算技术,成为一种具有发展前景的网络结构。但是,现有的基于光纤-无线网络的任务协同计算卸载研究主要以最小化移动设备的能耗为目标,忽略了实时性高的任务的需求。针对实时性高的任务,提出了以最小化任务的总处理时间为目标的集中式云和边缘云协同计算卸载问题,并对其进行形式化描述。同时,通过将该问题归约为装箱问题,从而证明其为NP难解问题。提出一个启发式协同计算卸载算法,该算法通过比较不同卸载策略的任务处理时间,优先选择时间最短的任务卸载策略。同时,提出一个定制的遗传算法,获得一个更优的任务卸载策略。实验结果表明,与现有的算法相比,本文提出的启发式算法得到的任务卸载策略平均减少4.34%的任务总处理时间,而定制的遗传算法的卸载策略平均减少18.41%的任务总处理时间。同时,定制的遗传算法的卸载策略与本文提出的启发式算法相比平均减少14.49%的任务总处理时间。     

基于能耗与延迟优化的移动边缘计算任务卸载模型及算法

随着移动边缘计算的兴起,如何处理边缘计算任务卸载成为研究热点问题之一。针对多任务-多边缘服务器的场景,本文首先提出一种基于能量延迟优化的移动边缘计算任务卸载模型,该模型考虑边缘设备的剩余电量,使用时延、能耗加权因子计算边缘设备的总开销,具有延长设备使用时间、减少任务卸载时延和能耗的优点。进一步提出一种基于改进遗传算法的移动边缘计算任务卸载算法,将求解最优卸载决策的问题转化为求解种群最优解的问题。对比仿真实验结果表明,本文提出的任务卸载模型和算法能够有效求解任务卸载问题,改进后的任务卸载算法求解更精确,能够避免局部最优解,利于寻找最优任务卸载决策。     

移动云计算中能效感知的计算卸载机制研究

移动云计算可以将任务从移动设备计算卸载至云端以增强设备计算能力,而如何实现能效计算卸载机制是当前的主要挑战。为了解决该问题,以降低移动设备能耗和应用完成时间为目标,将计算卸载问题形式化为满足任务顺序与截止时间约束的能效代价最小化问题,并提出一种动态能效感知计算卸载算法。算法由三个子算法组成：计算卸载选择、时钟频率控制及传输功率分配。实验结果表明,通过局部计算时优化调整移动设备CPU时钟频率,以及云端计算时自适应分配传输功率,新算法可以有效降低应用执行能效代价,同时确保满足约束条件,提高执行效率。     

Energy-aware allocation for delay-sensitive multitask in mobile edge computing

With lower network latency and powerful hardware, mobile edge computing (MEC) is effective for computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks. The rising energy and low-latency demands of mobile applications for MEC pose challenges to task allocation. In this work, we consider computation offloading in MEC that is composed of a set of mobile devices, each with multiple tasks to offload to a nearby MEC server, with both single and multiple access points (APs). With multiple APs deployed, each mobile device can directly communicate with one or more APs, and their tasks can offload to different MEC servers that are within direct communication range. By considering binary computation offloading mode and limited subchannels, we formulate the multitask allocation problem as an integer programming problem, with the objective of minimizing the total energy consumption of all mobile devices while meeting deadline requirements. To solve this complicated problem, we propose efficient algorithms for single and multiple APs, and analyze related properties, including the approximation ratio and complexity. Experiments show that the algorithm can find high-quality solutions in a short time.

     

边缘计算中任务卸载研究综述

近年来,随着移动智能设备的普及以及5G等无线通信技术的发展,边缘计算作为一种新兴的计算模式被提出,作为传统的云计算模式的扩展与补充。边缘计算的基本思想是将移动设备上产生的计算任务从卸载到云端转变为卸载到网络边缘端,从而满足实时在线游戏、增强现实等计算密集型应用对低延迟的要求。边缘计算中的计算任务卸载是一个关键的研究问题,即计算任务应在本地执行还是卸载到边缘节点或云端。不同的任务卸载方案对任务完成时延和移动设备能耗都有着较大的影响。文中首先介绍了边缘计算的基本概念,归纳了边缘计算的几种系统架构。随后,详细阐述了边缘计算中的计算任务卸载问题。基于对任务卸载方案研究的必要性与挑战的分析,对现有的相关研究工作进行了全面的综述和总结,并对未来的研究方向进行了展望。     

移动云环境面向多重服务选择的计算卸载算法

移动云计算可以通过计算卸载改善移动设备的能效和应用的执行延时。然而面对云端的多重服务选择时,计算卸载决策是NP问题。为了解决这一问题,提出一种遗传算法寻找计算卸载的最优应用分割决策解。遗传种群初始化中,算法联立预定义和随机染色体方法进行初始种群的生成,减少了无效染色体的发生比例。同时,算法为预定义的预留种群设计一种特定的基于汉明距离函数的适应度函数,更好地衡量了染色体间的差异。种群交叉中分别利用近亲交配与杂交繁育丰富了种群个体。算法通过修正的遗传操作减少了无效解的产生,以更合理的时间代价获得了应用分割的最优可行解。应用现实的移动应用任务图进行仿真实验评估了算法效率。评估结论表明,所设计的遗传算法在应用执行能耗、执行时间以及综合权重代价方面均优于对比算法。     

Processing capacity-based decision mechanism edge computing model for IoT applications

The handling of complex tasks in IoT applications becomes difficult due to the limited availability of resources in most IoT devices. There arises a need to offload the IoT tasks with huge processing and storage to resource enriched edge and cloud. In edge computing, factors such as arrival rate, nature and size of task, network conditions, platform differences and energy consumption of IoT end devices impacts in deciding an optimal offloading mechanism. A model is developed to make a dynamic decision for offloading of tasks to edge and cloud or local execution by computing the expected time, energy consumption and processing capacity. This dynamic decision is proposed as processing capacity-based decision mechanism (PCDM) which takes the offloading decisions on new tasks by scheduling all the available devices based on processing capacity. The target devices are then selected for task execution with respect to energy consumption, task size and network time. PCDM is developed in the EDGECloudSim simulator for four different applications from various categories such as time sensitiveness, smaller in size and less energy consumption. The PCDM offloading methodology is experimented through simulations to compare with multi-criteria decision support mechanism for IoT offloading (MEDICI). Strategies based on task weightage termed as PCDM-AI, PCDM-SI, PCDM-AN, and PCDM-SN are developed and compared against the five baseline existing strategies namely IoT-P, Edge-P, Cloud-P, Random-P, and Probabilistic-P. These nine strategies are again developed using MEDICI with the same parameters of PCDM. Finally, all the approaches using PCDM and MEDICI are compared against each other for four different applications. From the simulation results, it is inferred that every application has unique approach performing better in terms of response time, total task execution, energy consumption of device, and total energy consumption of applications.     

云边环境下基于博弈论的两阶段任务迁移策略

移动边缘计算（MEC）为计算密集型应用和资源受限的移动设备之间的冲突提供了有效解决办法,但大多关于MEC迁移的研究仅考虑移动设备与MEC服务器之间的资源分配,忽略了云计算中心的巨大计算资源。为了充分利用云和MEC资源,提出一种云边协作的任务迁移策略。首先,将云边服务器的任务迁移问题转化为博弈问题;然后,证明该博弈中纳什均衡（NE）的存在以及唯一性,并获得博弈问题的解决方案;最后,提出了一种基于博弈论的两阶段任务迁移算法来求解任务迁移问题,并通过性能指标对该算法的性能进行了评估。仿真结果表明,采用所提算法所产生的总开销分别比本地执行、云中心服务器执行和MEC服务器执行的总开销降低了72.8%、47.9%和2.65%,数值结果证实了所提策略可以实现更高的能源效率和更低的任务迁移开销,并且随着移动设备数量的增加可以很好地扩展规模。     

Multiobjective computation offloading for workflow management in cloudlet‐based mobile cloud using NSGA‐II

Cloudlet is a novel computing paradigm, introduced to the mobile cloud service framework, which moves the computing resources closer to the mobile users, aiming to alleviate the communication delay between the mobile devices and the cloud platform and optimize the energy consumption for mobile devices. Currently, the mobile applications, modeled by the workflows, tend to be complicated and computation‐intensive. Such workflows are required to be offloaded to the cloudlet or the remote cloud platform for execution. However, it is still a key challenge to determine the offloading resolvent for the deadline‐constrained workflows in the cloudlet‐based mobile cloud, since a cloudlet often has limited resources. In this paper, a multiobjective computation offloading method, named MCO, is proposed to address the above challenge. Technically, an energy consumption model for the mobile devices is established in the cloudlet‐based mobile cloud. Then, a corresponding computation offloading method, by improving Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II, is designed to achieve the goal of energy saving for all the mobile device while satisfying the deadline constraints of the workflows. Finally, extensive experimental evaluations are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed method.     

端到端通信中基于时间转换能量采集的计算迁移方案

在端到端（D2D）通信网络中,为提高移动云计算的有效性,提出了一种基于时间转换能量采集的计算迁移方案。首先,一个流量受限的智能移动终端把其需要迁移的计算任务通过D2D通信以射频信号的形式发送给一个能量受限的智能移动终端,后者利用时间转换方案对接收信号进行能量采集。然后,能量受限终端会为流量受限终端中继任务到云端服务器付出额外的流量消耗。最后,所提的方案被建模为一个最小化终端能量与流量消耗的非凸优化问题,通过优化能量受限终端的时间转换因子、采集能量分配因子以及流量受限终端的传输功率,最终获得了最优方案。仿真结果表明,相比于非协作方案,所提方案通过互惠协作进行计算迁移能有效地减少终端的匮乏资源开销。     

C2OF2N: a low power cooperative code offloading method for femtolet-based fog network

Power and delay aware cloud service provisioning to mobile devices has become a promising domain today. This paper proposes and implements a cooperative offloading approach for indoor mobile cloud network. In the proposed work mobile devices register under femtolet which is a home base station with computation and data storage facilities. The resources of the mobile devices are collaborated in such a way that different mobile devices can execute different types of computations based on cooperative federation. The proposed offloading scheme is referred as cooperative code offloading in femtolet-based fog network. If none of the mobile device can execute the requested computation, then femtolet executes the computation. Use of femtolet provides the mobile devices voice call service as well as cloud service access. Femtolet is used as the fog device in our approach. The proposed model is simulated using Qualnet version 7. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme minimizes the energy by 15% and average delay up to 12% approximately than the existing scheme. Hence, the proposed model is referred as a low power offloading approach.     

多设备间任务依赖的最佳卸载决策和资源分配

考虑了多个设备的移动边缘计算(mobile edge computing, MEC)与端对端(device-to-device, D2D)技术协作网络, 其中多个无线设备的最终输出作为另一个设备上某个子任务的输入. 为了最小化无线设备的能耗和任务完成时间的加权和, 研究了最优的资源分配(卸载发射功率和本地CPU频率)和任务卸载决策问题. 首先固定卸载决策, 推导出卸载发射功率和本地CPU频率的闭合表达式, 运用凸优化方法求出该问题的解. 然后基于一次爬升策略提出了一种低复杂度线性搜索算法, 该算法可以在线性时间内获得最佳卸载决策. 数值结果表明, 该策略的性能明显优于其他有代表性的基准测试.     

MEC中资源分配与卸载决策联合优化策略

针对移动边缘计算(MEC)中用户任务处理时延与能耗过高的问题,提出了“云-边-端”三层MEC计算卸载结构下的资源分配与卸载决策联合优化策略。首先,考虑系统时延与能耗,将优化问题规划为系统总增益(任务处理时延与能耗相对减少的加权和)最大化问题;其次,为用户任务设置优先级,并根据任务数据量初始化卸载决策方案;然后,采用均衡传输性能的信道分配算法为卸载任务分配信道资源,对于卸载至同一边缘服务器上的任务以最大化资源收益为目标进行资源竞争,实现计算资源最优配置;最后,基于博弈论证明优化问题为关于卸载决策的势函数,即存在纳什均衡,并利用迭代增益值比较法得到了纳什均衡下的卸载决策方案。仿真结果表明,所提联合优化策略在满足用户处理时延要求的情况下最大化系统总增益,有效地提高了计算卸载的性能。     

针对移动云计算任务迁移的快速高效调度算法

计算量较大的应用程序由于需要大量的能耗,因此在电池容量有限的移动设备上运行时十分受限。云计算迁移技术是保证此类应用程序在资源有限的设备上运行的主流方法。针对无线网络中应用程序任务图的调度和迁移问题,提出了一种快速高效的启发式算法。该算法将能够迁移到云端的任务都安排在云端完成这种策略作为初始解,通过逐次计算可迁移任务在移动端运行的能耗节省量,依次将节省量最大的任务迁移到移动端,并依据任务间的通讯时间及时更新各个任务的能耗节省量。为了寻找全局最优解,构造了适用于此问题的禁忌搜索算法,给出了相应的编码方法、禁忌表、邻域解以及算法终止准则。构造的禁忌搜索算法以提出的启发式解为初始解进行全局搜索,并实现对启发解的进一步优化。通过 实验 将所提方法与无迁移、随机迁移、饱和迁移3类算法进行对比,结果表明提出的启发式算法能够快速有效地给出能耗更小的解。例如,在宽度为10的任务图上,当深度为8时,无迁移、随机迁移与饱和迁移的能耗分别为5461、3357和2271能量单位,而给出的启发解对应的能耗仅为2111。在此基础上禁忌搜索算法又将其能耗降低到1942, 这进一步说明了提出的启发式算法能够产生高质量的近似解。     

Smart mobile computation offloading: Centralized selective and multi-objective approach

Although mobile devices have been considerably upgraded to more powerful terminals, yet their lightness feature still impose intrinsic limitations in their computation capability, storage capacity and battery lifetime. With the ability to release and augment the limited resources of mobile devices, mobile cloud computing has drawn significant research attention allowing computations to be offloaded and executed on remote resourceful infrastructure. Nevertheless, circumstances like mobility, latency, applications execution overload and mobile device state; any can affect the offloading decision, which might dictate local execution for some tasks and remote execution for others. We present in this article a novel system model for computations offloading which goes beyond existing works with smart centralized, selective, and optimized approach. The proposition consists of (1)hotspots selection mechanism to minimize the overhead of the offloading evaluation process yet without jeopardizing the discovery of the optimal processing environment of tasks, (2)a multi-objective optimization model that considers adaptable metrics crucial for minimizing device resource usage and augmenting its performance, and (3)a tailored centralized decision maker that uses genetics to intelligently find the optimal distribution of tasks. The scalability, overhead and performance of the proposed hotspots selection mechanism and hence its effect on the decision maker and tasks dissemination are evaluated. The results show its ability to notably reduce the evaluation cost while the decision maker was able in turn to maintain optimal dissemination of tasks. The model is also evaluated and the experiments prove its competency over existing models with execution speedup and significant reduction in the CPU usage, memory consumption and energy loss.