Computation efficiency (CE) is crucial to mobile edge computing (MEC) for intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) applications, in addition to energy efficiency. To improve CE, this paper designs a backscatter-assisted wireless powered MEC network, where IoT terminals can partially offload their computation tasks via hybrid offloading through harvest-then-transmit protocol and/or backscatter communications. In particular, a CE maximization problem is formulated from a system perspective and an iterative algorithm is developed to tackle the problem, by using the Dinkelbach and Lagrangian duality methods. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme over competing ones and the flexibility in achieving trade-offs between different computation and communication modes.


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    Title :

    Computation-efficient Hybrid Offloading for Backscatter-assisted Wirelessly Powered MEC


    Contributors:
    Lu, Jianzhen (author) / Wu, Peiran (author) / Xia, Minghua (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-04-01


    Size :

    2233400 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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