Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing Networks
The incorporation of RIS into the mobile edge computing (MEC) network can improve the wireless communication environment and enhance the task-offloading capability of the network. In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided edge computing-enabled multiuser networks wi...
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| description | The incorporation of RIS into the mobile edge computing (MEC) network can improve the wireless communication environment and enhance the task-offloading capability of the network. In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided edge computing-enabled multiuser networks with multiple access points (APs) and investigate the computation offloading strategy of user equipments (UEs). The user association matrix and the RIS reflecting coefficients are jointly optimized to minimize the energy consumption of UEs, subject to the latency constraint and other ones. We formulate it as a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). To solve the MINLP, we propose a branch and bound (BnB) based method, in which two important links are tackled, i.e., finding the MINLP’s lower bound and updating the incumbent solution. For the first link, the objective function and the latency constraint are relaxed to render the problem more tractable. For the second link, a lemma is first introduced to address the nonconvex phase constraint by establishing the equivalence between the original problem and the transformed problem. Subsequently, we propose an algorithm based on successive convex approximation (SCA), constructing a sequence of convex subproblems. To enhance the feasibility of the algorithm, a subgradient method is further employed to solve each subproblem. The convergence and complexity of the proposed method are analyzed and its effectiveness is demonstrated through simulation results. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ad15460c227b4ea081e84e13f7c7c6312025-08-20T03:27:22ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-011311875911877010.1109/ACCESS.2025.358555111068976Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing NetworksWen Zhou0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4831-3375Ling Miao1Dan Deng2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7760-5663Min Hua3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6040-5339Dan Xiang4https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5857-9326Chunguo Li5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4689-7226School of Low-Altitude Equipment and Intelligent Control, Guangzhou Maritime University, Guangzhou, ChinaCollege of Art and Design, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, Guangzhou Polytechnic University, Guangzhou, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Technology & Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Guangzhou Maritime University, Guangzhou, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, ChinaThe incorporation of RIS into the mobile edge computing (MEC) network can improve the wireless communication environment and enhance the task-offloading capability of the network. In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided edge computing-enabled multiuser networks with multiple access points (APs) and investigate the computation offloading strategy of user equipments (UEs). The user association matrix and the RIS reflecting coefficients are jointly optimized to minimize the energy consumption of UEs, subject to the latency constraint and other ones. We formulate it as a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). To solve the MINLP, we propose a branch and bound (BnB) based method, in which two important links are tackled, i.e., finding the MINLP’s lower bound and updating the incumbent solution. For the first link, the objective function and the latency constraint are relaxed to render the problem more tractable. For the second link, a lemma is first introduced to address the nonconvex phase constraint by establishing the equivalence between the original problem and the transformed problem. Subsequently, we propose an algorithm based on successive convex approximation (SCA), constructing a sequence of convex subproblems. To enhance the feasibility of the algorithm, a subgradient method is further employed to solve each subproblem. The convergence and complexity of the proposed method are analyzed and its effectiveness is demonstrated through simulation results.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11068976/Mobile edge computing (MEC)reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)computation offloadingbranch and bound (BnB) |
| spellingShingle | Wen Zhou Ling Miao Dan Deng Min Hua Dan Xiang Chunguo Li Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing Networks IEEE Access Mobile edge computing (MEC) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) computation offloading branch and bound (BnB) |
| title | Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing Networks |
| title_full | Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing Networks |
| title_fullStr | Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing Networks |
| title_short | Multi-User Task Offloading Strategy in RIS-Aided Multi-AP Mobile Edge Computing Networks |
| title_sort | multi user task offloading strategy in ris aided multi ap mobile edge computing networks |
| topic | Mobile edge computing (MEC) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) computation offloading branch and bound (BnB) |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11068976/ |
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