Quality of Service Optimization in Mobile Edge Computing Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Published

September 13, 2020

Author(s)

Li-Tse Hsieh, Hang Liu, Yang Guo, Robert Gazda

Abstract

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that integrates computing resources in wireless access networks to process computational tasks in close proximity to mobile users with low latency. In this paper, we propose an online double deep Q networks (DDQN) based learning scheme for task assignment in dynamic MEC networks, which enables multiple distributed edge nodes and a cloud data center to jointly process user tasks to achieve optimization of the expected long-term quality of service (QoS). The proposed scheme can capture a wide range of dynamic network parameters including non-stationary task arrivals, node computing capabilities, and network delay statistics, and learn the optimal task assignment policy with no assumption on the knowledge of the underlying dynamics. The proposed algorithm accounts for both performance and complexity, and ad-dresses the state and action space explosion problem in conventional Q learning. The evaluation results show that the proposed DDQN-based task assignment scheme significantly improves the QoS performance, compared to the existing schemes that do not consider the effects of network dynamics on the expected long-term rewards and can scale reasonably well as the network size increases.

Conference Dates

September 13-15, 2020

Conference Location

Qingdao, CN

Conference Title

The 15th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2020)

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Mobile edge computing, Deep Reinforcement Learning

Citation

Hsieh, L. , Liu, H. , Guo, Y. and Gazda, R. (2020), Quality of Service Optimization in Mobile Edge Computing Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning, The 15th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2020), Qingdao, CN, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=930594 (Accessed October 1, 2025)