Optimal Resource Allocation for Multimedia Applications Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing

Thanks to the development of the technologies in the wireless communications and Internet of Things (IoT), the adoption of mobile devices is growing rapidly. Accordingly, the number of multimedia applications like face recognition and augmented reality generated from various mobile devices is growing at an unprecedented rate. The processing of these multimedia applications needs a lot of computation resources and has to be processed as quickly as possible. However, as these mobile devices have limited computation resources, the undesirable response delay will occur. By offloading the multimedia applications to the edge cloud close to the access point (AP) or the cellular base station (BS), mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as a prospective approach to improve the quality of service (QoS) and enhance the computing capacity of mobile devices. Multimedia applications offloading in a MEC system are studied in this paper. The objective of the studied problem is to minimize the execution delay of multimedia applications of all mobile devices by allocating both the communication resource and the computing resource in the edge servers. An optimization problem is formulated and an efficient multimedia applications offloading scheme is proposed to get the solution. Simulation results are conducted to verify the proposed application offloading method, which show that there is a significant execution delay reduction.