Incentive Cooperation with Computation Delay Concerns for Socially-Aware Parked Vehicle Edge Computing

Massive computing requirements of mobile applications greatly challenge the limited resources in the cloud. It is observed that parked vehicles (PVs) have redundant computing resources for task execution. Hence, we focus on how to efficiently and economically apply PVs for assisting the cloud. An proposed incentive mechanism, initiated by the cloud, motivates PVs to participate in the offloading of cloud’s computing tasks. We build the utility to characterize a PV’s profits, generated from task execution and socially-aware effects from other PVs. The benefits of the cloud consider many factors, such as computing tasks of mobile users, energy cost, economic compensation for PVs and PVs’ computation delay. The interactions among PVs and the cloud formulate a two-stage Stackelberg game to maximize their profits. The performance of the proposed model is investigated by simulations. Numerical results prove its efficiency for enhancing PVs’ utilities and cloud’s quality of service.