Hybrid Offloading Technique Based on Auction Theory and Reinforcement Learning in MEC Industrial IoT Environment


KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp. 263-272, Sep. 2023
https://doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2023.12.9.263,   PDF Download:
Keywords: Mobile Edge Computing(MEC), Device-to-Device(D2D) Offloading, Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT), McAfee’s Double Auction, Multi-Armed Bandit(MAB)
Abstract

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an important factor in increasing production efficiency in industrial sectors, along with data collection, exchange and analysis through large-scale connectivity. However, as traffic increases explosively due to the recent spread of IIoT, an allocation method that can efficiently process traffic is required. In this thesis, I propose a two-stage task offloading decision method to increase successful task throughput in an IIoT environment. In addition, I consider a hybrid offloading system that can offload compute-intensive tasks to a mobile edge computing server via a cellular link or to a nearby IIoT device via a Device to Device (D2D) link. The first stage is to design an incentive mechanism to prevent devices participating in task offloading from acting selfishly and giving difficulties in improving task throughput. Among the mechanism design, McAfee's mechanism is used to control the selfish behavior of the devices that process the task and to increase the overall system throughput. After that, in stage 2, I propose a multi-armed bandit (MAB)-based task offloading decision method in a non-stationary environment by considering the irregular movement of the IIoT device. Experimental results show that the proposed method can obtain better performance in terms of overall system throughput, communication failure rate and regret compared to other existing methods.


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[IEEE Style]
B. H. Ji and K. S. Wook, "Hybrid Offloading Technique Based on Auction Theory and Reinforcement Learning in MEC Industrial IoT Environment," KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 263-272, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2023.12.9.263.

[ACM Style]
Bae Hyeon Ji and Kim Sung Wook. 2023. Hybrid Offloading Technique Based on Auction Theory and Reinforcement Learning in MEC Industrial IoT Environment. KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, 12, 9, (2023), 263-272. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2023.12.9.263.