Security Offloading Scheduling and Caching Optimization Algorithm in UAV Edge Computing

Abstract

Mobile edge computing, a prospective wireless communication framework, can contribute to offload a large number of tasks to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mobile edge servers. Besides, the demand for server computational resources increasingly ascends as the volume of processing tasks grows. However, in reality, many devices have similar computing tasks and require the same computing data. Therefore, servers can effectively reduce server computing latency and bandwidth costs by caching task data. This investigation explores task security offloading and data caching optimization strategies in scenarios with multiple interfering devices. With the goal of minimizing the total energy consumption, the UAV trajectories, transmission power, task offloading scheduling strategies, and caching decisions is jointly optimized. The corresponding optimization problem, which consists of mixed integer nonlinear programming problem, is formulated. To make this problem solved, the original problem is decomposed into three tiers, and an iterative algorithm named CDSFS which is based on the coordinate descent, successive convex approximation, and flow shop scheduling is proposed. Simulation results demonstrate the stability and superiority of the proposed algorithm.