Collaborative Task Assignment Algorithm to Reduce Total Response Time in MEC Platform

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a collaborative task assignment algorithm to reduce a total response time in Multi-access Edge Cloud (MEC) platform. In the proposed algorithm, we derive a response time for each task processing place and formulate an optimization problem that minimizes the total response time of all tasks. Moreover, the optimal task assignment is determined by solving the optimization problem. In numerical examples, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method by simulation and we show the effectiveness of the proposed method.