An energy-aware Edge Server Placement Algorithm in Mobile Edge Computing

Edge server placement problem is a hot topic in mobile edge computing. In this paper, we study the problem of energy-aware edge server placement and try to find a more effective placement scheme with low energy consumption. Then, we formulate the problem as a multi-objective optimization problem and devise a particle swarm optimization based energy-aware edge server placement algorithm to find the optimal solution. We evaluate the algorithm based on the real dataset from Shanghai Telecom and the results show our algorithm can reduce more than 10% energy consumption with over 15% improvement in computing resource utilization, compared to other algorithms.