Task Offloading for End-Edge-Cloud Orchestrated Computing in Mobile Networks

Recently, mobile edge computing has received widespread attention, which provides computing infrastructure via pushing cloud computing, network control, and storage to the network edges. To improve the resource utilization and Quality of Service, we investigate the issue of task offloading for End-Edge-Cloud orchestrated computing in mobile networks. Particularly, we jointly optimize the server selection and resource allocation to minimize the weighted sum of the average cost. A cost minimization problem is formulated under joint the constraints of cache resource and communication/computation resource of edge servers. The resultant problem is a Mixed-Integer Non-linear Programming, which is NP-hard. To tackle this problem, we decompose it into simpler subproblems for server selection and resource allocation, respectively. We propose a low-complexity hierarchical heuristic approach to achieve server selection, and a Cauchy-Schwards Inequality based closed-form approach to efficiently determine resource allocation. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed scheme on reducing the weighted sum of the average cost in the network.