V2X offloading and resource allocation under SDN and MEC architecture

To address the serious problem of delay and energy consumption increase and service quality degradation caused by complex network status and huge amounts of computing data in the scenario of vehicle-to-everything (V2X),a vehicular network architecture combining mobile edge computing (MEC) and software defined network (SDN) was constructed.MEC sinks cloud serviced to the edge of the wireless network to compensate for the delay fluctuation caused by remote cloud computing.The SDN controller could sense network information from a global perspective,flexibly schedule resources,and control offload traffic.To further reduce the system overhead,a joint task offloading and resource allocation scheme was proposed.By modeling the MEC-based V2X offloading and resource allocation,the optimal offloading decision,communication and computing resource allocation scheme were derived.Considering the NP-hard attribute of the problem,Agglomerative Clustering was used to select the initial offloading node,and Q-learning was used for resource allocation.The offloading decision was modeled as an exact potential game,and the existence of Nash equilibrium was proved by the potential function structure.The simulation results show that,as compared to other mechanisms,the proposed mechanism can effectively reduce the system overhead.     

移动边缘网络中基于用户移动的服务功能链迁移策略

移动边缘计算(Mobile Edge Computing,MEC)通过在网络边缘部署服务器,提供计算和存储资源,可为用户提供超低时延和高带宽业务。网络功能虚拟化(Network Function Virtualization,NFV)与MEC技术相结合,可在MEC服务器上提供服务功能链(Service Function Chain,SFC),提升用户的业务体验。为了保证移动用户的服务质量,需要在用户跨基站移动时将SFC迁移到合适的边缘服务器上。主要以最小化用户服务的端到端时延和运行成本为目标,提出了MEC网络中具有资源容量约束的SFC迁移策略,以实现移动用户业务的无缝迁移。仿真结果表明,与现有方案相比,该策略具有更好的有效性和高效性。     

WSN低功耗低时延路径式协同计算方法

针对云计算应用于无线传感器网络(Wireless Sensor Network,WSN)时延敏感型业务时存在的高传输时延问题,提出了一种WSN低功耗低时延路径式协同计算方法.该方法基于一种云雾网络架构开展研究,该架构利用汇聚节点组成雾计算层;在数据传输过程中基于雾计算层的计算能力分步骤完成任务计算,降低任务处理时延;由...     

Multi-objective optimization for task offloading based on network calculus in fog environments

With the widespread application of wireless communication technology and continuous improvements to Internet of Things (IoT) technology, fog computing architecture composed of edge, fog, and cloud layers have become a research hotspot. This architecture uses Fog Nodes (FNs) close to users to implement certain cloud functions while compensating for cloud disadvantages. However, because of the limited computing and storage capabilities of a single FN, it is necessary to offload tasks to multiple cooperating FNs for task completion. To effectively and quickly realize task offloading, we use network calculus theory to establish an overall performance model for task offloading in a fog computing environment and propose a Globally Optimal Multi-objective Optimization algorithm for Task Offloading (GOMOTO) based on the performance model. The results show that the proposed model and algorithm can effectively reduce the total delay and total energy consumption of the system and improve the network Quality of Service (QoS).     

基于终端能耗和系统时延最小化的边缘计算卸载及资源分配机制

通过移动边缘计算下移云端的应用功能和处理能力支撑计算密集或时延敏感任务的执行成为当前的发展趋势。但面对众多移动终端用户时,如何有效利用计算资源有限的边缘节点来保障终端用户服务质量(QoS)成为关键问题。为此,该文融合边缘云与远端云构建了一种分层的边缘云计算架构,以此架构为基础,以最小化移动设备能耗和任务执行时间为目标,将问题形式化描述为资源约束下的最小化能耗和时延加权和的凸优化问题,并提出基于乘子法的计算卸载及资源分配机制解决该问题。实验结果表明,在计算任务量很大的情况下,提出的计算卸载及资源分配机制能够有效降低移动终端能耗,并在任务执行时延方面较局部计算与计算卸载机制分别降低最高60%与10%,提高系统性能。     

A dynamic fog service provisioning approach for IoT applications

Internet of Things (IoT) is an ecosystem that can improve the life quality of humans through smart services, thereby facilitating everyday tasks. Connecting to cloud and utilizing its services are now public and common, and the experts seek to find some ways to complete cloud computing to use it in IoT, which in next decades will make everything online. Fog computing, where the cloud computing expands to the edge of the network, is one way to achieve the objectives of delay reduction, immediate processing, and network congestion. Since IoT devices produce variations of workloads over time, IoT application services will experience traffic trace fluctuations. So knowing about the distribution of future workloads required to handle IoT workload while meeting the QoS constraint. As a result, in the context of fog computing, the main objective of resource management is dynamic resource provisioning such that it avoids the excess or dearth of provisioning. In the present work, we first propose a distributed computing framework for autonomic resource management in the context of fog computing. Then, we provide a customized version of a provisioning system for IoT services based on control MAPE‐k loop. The system makes use of a reinforcement learning technique as decision maker in planning phase and support vector regression technique in analysis phase. At the end, we conduct a family of simulation‐based experiments to assess the performance of our introduced system. The average delay, cost, and delay violation are decreased by 1.95%, 11%, and 5.1%, respectively, compared with existing solutions.     

Survey on data security and privacy-preserving for the research of edge computing

With the rapid development and extensive application of the Internet of things (IoT),big data and 5G network architecture,the massive data generated by the edge equipment of the network and the real-time service requirements are far beyond the capacity if the traditional cloud computing.To solve such dilemma,the edge computing which deploys the cloud services in the edge network has envisioned to be the dominant cloud service paradigm in the era of IoT.Meanwhile,the unique features of edge computing,such as content perception,real-time computing,parallel processing and etc.,has also introduced new security problems especially the data security and privacy issues.Firstly,the background and challenges of data security and privacy-preserving in edge computing were described,and then the research architecture of data security and privacy-preserving was presented.Secondly,the key technologies of data security,access control,identity authentication and privacy-preserving were summarized.Thirdly,the recent research advancements on the data security and privacy issues that may be applied to edge computing were described in detail.Finally,some potential research points of edge computing data security and privacy-preserving were given,and the direction of future research work was pointed out.     

异构蜂窝网络中分层任务卸载：建模与优化

为提高计算任务卸载的效率,提出了一种基于D2D通信、移动边缘计算和云计算的分层任务卸载框架,并引入D2D协作中继技术辅助用户接入远端计算资源。针对所提任务卸载框架在多用户场景中可能存在上行通信拥塞、边缘计算资源受限、D2D复用干扰和云计算回程时延等问题,设计了一种基于博弈论的卸载调度和负载均衡方案,充分利用了所提任务卸载框架中各层计算和通信资源。仿真结果表明,所提方案能够有效降低端到端时延和卸载能耗,并在资源受限的条件下具有良好的稳定性。     

面向多工作流的基于容器的边缘微服务选择机制

边缘计算已经成为物联网(IOT)的有效解决方案,微服务模型将物联网应用程序划分为一组松散耦合、相互依赖的细粒度微服务。由于边缘节点资源有限,并发请求争夺容器实例,如何在移动边缘计算环境下为复杂工作流应用的并发请求生成合适的微服务执行方案是一个需要解决的重要问题。为此,该文首先建立了基于容器的微服务选择架构,并构建了服务时延模型和网络资源消耗模型,以减少平均延迟和网络消耗。其次,提出一种基于优先级机制和改进蚁群的微服务选择算法(MS-PAC),利用任务截止时间优先分配紧急任务以保证延迟,并利用蚁群算法的信息素机制寻找全局最优解。实验表明,该算法能有效地降低平均时延和网络消耗。     

Learning for Smart Edge: Cognitive Learning-Based Computation Offloading

With the development of intelligent applications, more and more intelligent applications are computation intensive, data intensive and delay sensitive. Compared with traditional cloud computing, edge computing can reduce communication delay by offloading computing tasks to edge cloud. Furthermore, with the complexity of computing scenarios in edge cloud, deep learning based on computation offloading scheme has attracted wide attention. However, all the learning-based offloading scheme does not consider the where and how to run the offloading scheme itself. Thus, in this paper, we consider the problem of running the learning-based computation offloading scheme for the first time and propose the learning for smart edge architecture. Then, we give the computation offloading optimization problem of mobile devices under multi-user and multi edge cloud scenarios. Furthermore, we propose cognitive learning-based computation offloading (CLCO) scheme for this problem. Finally, experimental results show that compared with other offloading schemes, the CLCO scheme has lower task duration and energy consumption.

     

基于重叠网络结构的服务功能链时空优化编排策略

网络功能虚拟化(NFV)的引入大幅降低了互联网业务的运营成本。针对现有的服务功能链(SFC)编排方法无法在优化底层资源的同时保证业务时延性能的问题,该文提出一种基于重叠网络结构的SFC时空优化编排策略。在将计算、网络资源与细粒度时延约束纳入考虑的基础上,该策略通过建立重叠网络模型实现了计算与网络资源的分离,将构建SFC所需的资源开销与相关时延共同抽象化为重叠网络链路权重,从而使SFC编排问题转化为易于求解的最短路径问题。对于需要批量处理的SFC集合设计了基于重叠网络的模拟退火迭代优化编排算法(ONSA)。通过对比实验证明了该策略下编排方案的平均端到端时延、链路资源占用率与运营开销相对其他方案分别降低29.5%, 12.4%与15.2%,请求接受率提高22.3%,虚拟网络功能(VNF)负载均衡性能得到显著提升。     

Aerial edge computing for 6G

In the 6 th generation mobile communication system(6 G) era, a large number of delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications impose great pressure on resource-constrained Internet of things(IoT) devices. Aerial edge computing is envisioned as a promising and cost-effective solution, especially in hostile environments without terrestrial infrastructures. Therefore, this paper focuses on integrating aerial edge computing into 6 G for providing ubiquitous computing services for IoT devices...     

Multiuser computation offloading for edge-cloud collaboration using submodular optimization

A computation offloading scheme based on edge-cloud computing was proposed to improve the system utility of multiuser computation offloading.This scheme improved the system utility while considering the optimization of edge-cloud resources.In order to tackle the problems of computation offloading mode selection and edge-cloud resource allocation,a greedy algorithm based on submodular theory was developed by fully exploiting the computing and communication resources of cloud and edge.The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme effectively reduces the delay and energy consumption of computing tasks.Additionally,when computing tasks are offloaded to edge and cloud from devices,the proposed scheme still maintains stable system utilities under ultra-limited resources.     

基于深度确定性策略梯度的虚拟网络功能迁移优化算法

针对NFV/SDN架构下,服务功能链(SFC)的资源需求动态变化引起的虚拟网络功能(VNF)迁移优化问题,该文提出一种基于深度强化学习的VNF迁移优化算法.首先,在底层CPU、带宽资源和SFC端到端时延约束下,建立基于马尔可夫决策过程(MDP)的随机优化模型,该模型通过迁移VNF来联合优化网络能耗和SFC端到端时延.其...     

战术云在战术边缘的应用研究

随着网络中心战的发展,战术边缘的态势感知和信息处理能力对瞬息万变的战争局势的影响越来越大。基于云计算技术的战术云可以为战术边缘提供强大的计算、存储和信息处理能力,分析对比了目前外军主要的四种战术云架构的技术特点,并以微云架构为基础,提出了一种基于软件定义的战术云方案,该方案可以灵活地为战术边缘的移动设备提供各种应用服务,同时可以保障业务的QoS以及优化无线资源的利用率。     

Edge Computing Offloading Strategy Based on Dynamic Non-cooperative Games in D-IoT

With the vigorous development of Internet of Things technology, the current distribution network is developing towards the information-based and intelligent distribution Internet of Things (D-IoT). D-IoT adopts the mode of the cloud computing center and the edge cloud network working together. The edge cloud network has a large number of intelligent terminals, which can well adapt to the current sharply expanding power data scale. In order to further improve the ability of the edge network in D-IoT to process data in real time, and to maximize the quality of user experience (QoE) while minimizing energy consumption when performing computing offload, this paper proposes a dynamic non-cooperative game based edge Computing task offloading strategy, considering the dynamic nature of task generation, designed a distributed iterative optimization algorithm, which decomposes computing offloading into a series of sub-problems to solve. The results of simulation experiments prove that the calculation offloading mechanism proposed in this paper can greatly improve D -Compute efficiency of IoT system.

     

基于迁移演员-评论家学习的服务功能链部署算法

针对5G网络切片环境下由于业务请求的随机性和未知性导致的资源分配不合理从而引起的系统高时延问题,该文提出了一种基于迁移演员-评论家(A-C)学习的服务功能链(SFC)部署算法(TACA)。首先,该算法建立基于虚拟网络功能放置、计算资源、链路带宽资源和前传网络资源联合分配的端到端时延最小化模型,并将其转化为离散时间马尔可夫决策过程(MDP)。而后,在该MDP中采用A-C学习算法与环境进行不断交互动态调整SFC部署策略,优化端到端时延。进一步,为了实现并加速该A-C算法在其他相似目标任务中(如业务请求到达率普遍更高)的收敛过程,采用迁移A-C学习算法实现利用源任务学习的SFC部署知识快速寻找目标任务中的部署策略。仿真结果表明,该文所提算法能够减小且稳定SFC业务数据包的队列积压,优化系统端到端时延,并提高资源利用率。     

Research on intelligent computing offloading model based on reputation value in mobile edge computing

Aiming at the problem of high-latency,high-energy-consumption,and low-reliability mobile caused by computing-intensive and delay-sensitive emerging mobile applications in the explosive growth of IoT smart mobile terminals in the mobile edge computing environment,an offload decision-making model where delay and energy consumption were comprehensively included,and a computing resource game allocation model based on reputation that took into account was proposed,then improved particle swarm algorithm and the method of Lagrange multipliers were used respectively to solve models.Simulation results show that the proposed method can meet the service requirements of emerging intelligent applications for low latency,low energy consumption and high reliability,and effectively implement the overall optimized allocation of computing offload resources.     

Congestion‐aware multiaccess edge computing collaboration model for 5G

In 5G cloud computing, the most notable and considered design issues are the energy efficiency and delay. The majority of the recent studies were dedicated to optimizing the delay issue by leveraging the edge computing concept, while other studies directed its efforts towards realizing a green cloud by minimizing the energy consumption in the cloud. Active queue management‐based green cloud model (AGCM) as one of the recent green cloud models reduced the delay and energy consumption while maintaining a reliable throughput. Multiaccess edge computing (MEC) was established as a model for the edge computing concept and achieved remarkable enhancement to the delay issue. In this paper, we present a handoff scenario between the two cloud models, AGCM and MEC, to acquire the potential gain of such collaboration and investigate its impact on the cloud fundamental constraints; energy consumption, delay, and throughput. We examined our proposed model with simulation showing great enhancement for the delay, energy consumption, and throughput over either model when employed separately.     

基于强化学习的5G网络切片虚拟网络功能迁移算法

针对5G网络切片架构下业务请求动态性引起的虚拟网络功能(VNF)迁移优化问题,该文首先建立基于受限马尔可夫决策过程(CMDP)的随机优化模型以实现多类型服务功能链(SFC)的动态部署,该模型以最小化通用服务器平均运行能耗为目标,同时受限于各切片平均时延约束以及平均缓存、带宽资源消耗约束。其次,为了克服优化模型中难以准确掌握系统状态转移概率及状态空间过大的问题,该文提出了一种基于强化学习框架的VNF智能迁移学习算法,该算法通过卷积神经网络(CNN)来近似行为值函数,从而在每个离散的时隙内根据当前系统状态为每个网络切片制定合适的VNF迁移策略及CPU资源分配方案。仿真结果表明,所提算法在有效地满足各切片QoS需求的同时,降低了基础设施的平均能耗。