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Context-Aware Multi-User Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: a Federated Learning-Based Approach

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Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides an effective solution to help the Internet of Things (IoT) devices with delay-sensitive and computation-intensive tasks by offering computing capabilities in the proximity of mobile device users. Most of the existing studies ignore context information of the application, requests, sensors, resources, and network. However, in practice, context information has a significant impact on offloading decisions. In this paper, we consider context-aware offloading in MEC with multi-user. The contexts are collected using autonomous management as the MAPE loop in all offloading processes. Also, federated learning (FL)-based offloading is presented. Our learning method in mobile devices (MDs) is deep reinforcement learning (DRL). FL helps us to use distributed capabilities of MEC with updated weights between MDs and edge devices (Eds). The simulation results indicate our method is superior to local computing, offload, and FL without considering context-aware algorithms in terms of energy consumption, execution cost, network usage, delay, and fairness.

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  1. Department of Computing and IT, Global College of Engineering and Technology, Muscat, Oman

    Ali Shahidinejad & Mazhar Hussain Malik

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran

    Fariba Farahbakhsh & Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

  3. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Toni Anwar

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Shahidinejad, A., Farahbakhsh, F., Ghobaei-Arani, M. et al. Context-Aware Multi-User Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: a Federated Learning-Based Approach. J Grid Computing 19, 18 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-021-09559-x

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