Task Offloading and Trajectory Optimization for Secure Communications in Dynamic User Multi-UAV MEC Systems

Abstract

With the advantages of high mobility and flexible deployment, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) combines with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising technology. When dynamic Terminal Users (TUs) offload tasks to UAVs, eavesdroppers may eavesdrop on the channel information. The offloading decisions, trajectory plannings of UAVs and resource allocation with the objective of high-capacity secure communication is a challenging problem. In this paper, we design a multi-UAVs MEC system, where the original region is divided into several sub-regions and TUs offload tasks to UAVs which provide computing services for these TUs. Meanwhile, A joint optimization problem of offloading decision, resource allocation and trajectory planning is formulated, where TUs move with the Gauss-Markov random model. In addition, the Base Station (BS) emits jamming signals to evade the eavesdropping of offloading information from eavesdroppers. The goal of the optimization problem is to maximize the TUs’ minimum secure calculation capacity, and a Joint Dynamic Programming and Bidding (JDPB) algorithm is proposed to solve it. The Successive Convex Approximation (SCA) and Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) algorithms are used to handle the resource allocation and trajectory planning problems, and the bidding method is used to address the task offloading decision problem. Simulation results show that JDPB has better performance and better robustness under different parameter settings than other schemes.