Energy-efficient offloading policy in D2D underlay communication integrated with MEC service

Abstract

The offloading policy has attracted much attention in the study of Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication underlaying cellular network integrated with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) service. D2D communication can improve energy efficiency and prolong the battery life of user equipment (UEs) by offloading computation tasks from a UE to a nearby UE via a D2D link. How to coordinate UEs to offload tasks in D2D underlay communication integrated with MEC Service for reducing interference and improving network energy efficiency is a very important subject. In this paper, we study a D2D underlay communication integrated with MEC service system that provides three offloading policies that are: (i) executing tasks in local device, (ii) offloading tasks to servers in local region, (iii) offloading tasks to a nearby UE. Furthermore, we formulate the computation offloading problem as a potential game and propose a D2D communication integrated with MEC service offloading computation algorithm for solving the computation offloading problem in a short period. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can reduce overall system energy consumption under time constraints.