SDN Assisted Mobile Edge Computing for Collaborative Computation Offloading in Industrial Internet of Things

Authors

Chaogang Tang, School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China
Chunsheng Zhu, College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
Ning Zhang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Mohsen Guizani, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceFollow
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Abstract

Mobile edge computing (MEC) can provision augmented computational capacity in proximity so as to better support Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Tasks from the IIoT devices can be outsourced and executed at the accessible computational access point (CAP). This computing paradigm enables the computing resources much closer to the IIoT devices, and thus satisfy the stringent latency requirement of the IIoT tasks. However, existing works in MEC that focus on task offloading and resource allocation seldom consider the load balancing issue. Therefore, load balance aware task offloading strategies for IIoT devices in MEC are urgently needed. In this paper, Software Defined Network (SDN) technology is adopted to address this issue, since the rule-based forwarding policy in SDN can help determine the most suitable offloading path and CAP for undertaking the computation. To this end, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the response latency in the proposed SDN assisted MEC architecture. A greedy algorithm is put forward to obtain the approximate optimal solution in polynomial time. Simulation has been carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach. The simulation results reveal that our approach outstands other approaches in terms of the response latency. IEEE

First Page

1

Last Page

1

DOI

10.1109/JIOT.2022.3190281

Publication Date

7-13-2022

Keywords

computation offloading, Computer architecture, IIoT, Industrial Internet of Things, load balancing, MEC, Optimization, Quality of service, response latency optimization, Robot sensing systems, Routing, SDN, Task analysis

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Recommended Citation

C. Tang, C. Zhu, N. Zhang, M. Guizani and J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, "SDN Assisted Mobile Edge Computing for Collaborative Computation Offloading in Industrial Internet of Things," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3190281.