Muntean, Gabriel-Miro et al.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9332-4770
(2025)
Reliability-aware Optimization of Task Offloading for UAV-assisted Edge Computing.
IEEE Transactions on Computers (Online)
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ISSN 1557-9956
Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are widely used for
edge computing in poor infrastructure scenarios due to their deployment flexibility and mobility. In UAV-assisted edge computing
systems, multiple UAVs can cooperate with the cloud to provide
superior computing capability for diverse innovative services.
However, many service-related computational tasks may fail due
to the unreliability of UAVs and wireless transmission channels.
Diverse solutions were proposed, but most of them employ timedriven strategies which introduce unwanted decision waiting
delays. To address this problem, this paper focuses on a taskdriven reliability-aware cooperative offloading problem in UAVassisted edge-enhanced networks. The issue is formulated as an
optimization problem which jointly optimizes UAV trajectories,
offloading decisions, and transmission power, aiming to maximize
the long-term average task success rate. Considering the discretecontinuous hybrid action space of the problem, a dependenceaware latent-space representation algorithm is proposed to represent discrete-continuous hybrid actions. Furthermore, we design
a novel deep reinforcement learning scheme by combining the
representation algorithm and a twin delayed deep deterministic
policy gradient algorithm. We compared our proposed algorithm
with four alternative solutions via simulations and a realistic
Kubernetes testbed-based setup. The test results show how our
scheme outperforms the other methods, ensuring significant
improvements in terms of task success rate
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article (Published) |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | UAV-assisted network, multi-access edge computing (MEC), deep reinforcement learning (DRL) |
| Subjects: | Engineering > Electronics Engineering > Electronic engineering |
| DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering |
| Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Official URL: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11146794 |
| Copyright Information: | Authors |
| ID Code: | 31571 |
| Deposited On: | 23 Sep 2025 14:16 by Gordon Kennedy . Last Modified 23 Sep 2025 14:16 |
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