Reliable communication and intensive computing power cannot be provided effectively by temporary hot spots in disaster areas and complex terrain ground infrastructure.Mitigating this has greatly developed the applicat...Reliable communication and intensive computing power cannot be provided effectively by temporary hot spots in disaster areas and complex terrain ground infrastructure.Mitigating this has greatly developed the application and integration of UAV and Mobile Edge Computing(MEC)to the Internet of Things(loT).However,problems such as multi-user and huge data flow in large areas,which contradict the reality that a single UAV is constrained by limited computing power,still exist.Due to allowing UAV collaboration to accomplish complex tasks,cooperative task offloading between multiple UAVs must meet the interdependence of tasks and realize parallel processing,which reduces the computing power consumption and endurance pressure of terminals.Considering the computing requirements of the user terminal,delay constraint of a computing task,energy constraint,and safe distance of UAV,we constructed a UAV-Assisted cooperative offloading energy efficiency system for mobile edge computing to minimize user terminal energy consumption.However,the resulting optimization problem is originally nonconvex and thus,difficult to solve optimally.To tackle this problem,we developed an energy efficiency optimization algorithm using Block Coordinate Descent(BCD)that decomposes the problem into three convex subproblems.Furthermore,we jointly optimized the number of local computing tasks,number of computing offloaded tasks,trajectories of UAV,and offloading matching relationship between multi-UAVs and multiuser terminals.Simulation results show that the proposed approach is suitable for different channel conditions and significantly saves the user terminal energy consumption compared with other benchmark schemes.展开更多
This paper proposes a synchronous parallel block coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing a composite function,which consists of a smooth convex function plus a non-smooth but separable convex function.Due to the g...This paper proposes a synchronous parallel block coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing a composite function,which consists of a smooth convex function plus a non-smooth but separable convex function.Due to the generalization of the proposed method,some existing synchronous parallel algorithms can be considered as special cases.To tackle high dimensional problems,the authors further develop a randomized variant,which randomly update some blocks of coordinates at each round of computation.Both proposed parallel algorithms are proven to have sub-linear convergence rate under rather mild assumptions.The numerical experiments on solving the large scale regularized logistic regression with 1 norm penalty show that the implementation is quite efficient.The authors conclude with explanation on the observed experimental results and discussion on the potential improvements.展开更多
为验证收发器硬件损耗对通信系统性能的影响,在考虑收发器硬件损耗的情况下,对智能反射面(intelligent reflecting surface,IRS)辅助的携能通信(simultaneous wireless information and power transfer,SWIPT)系统的鲁棒性传输设计进行...为验证收发器硬件损耗对通信系统性能的影响,在考虑收发器硬件损耗的情况下,对智能反射面(intelligent reflecting surface,IRS)辅助的携能通信(simultaneous wireless information and power transfer,SWIPT)系统的鲁棒性传输设计进行研究.在考虑基站的最大发射功率、能量收集器的最小接收能量和IRS无源波束成形的约束下,将优化目标设为最大化所有信息接收者的加权和速率,并使用块坐标下降(block coordinate descent,BCD)算法将优化问题分解成多个优化子问题,交替优化.对于基站有源波束成形和IRS无源波束成形的优化问题,分别采用拉格朗日对偶方法和最优化最大化(majorization minimization,MM)算法来解决.仿真结果验证了收发器硬件损耗对系统性能的影响,也证实了信息接收端的硬件损耗要比基站发射端的硬件损耗对系统造成的性能下降更明显.展开更多
基金supported by the Jiangsu Provincial Key Research and Development Program(No.BE2020084-4)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.92067201)+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61871446)the Open Research Fund of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications(710020017002)the Natural Science Foundation of Nanjing University of Posts and telecommunications(NY220047).
文摘Reliable communication and intensive computing power cannot be provided effectively by temporary hot spots in disaster areas and complex terrain ground infrastructure.Mitigating this has greatly developed the application and integration of UAV and Mobile Edge Computing(MEC)to the Internet of Things(loT).However,problems such as multi-user and huge data flow in large areas,which contradict the reality that a single UAV is constrained by limited computing power,still exist.Due to allowing UAV collaboration to accomplish complex tasks,cooperative task offloading between multiple UAVs must meet the interdependence of tasks and realize parallel processing,which reduces the computing power consumption and endurance pressure of terminals.Considering the computing requirements of the user terminal,delay constraint of a computing task,energy constraint,and safe distance of UAV,we constructed a UAV-Assisted cooperative offloading energy efficiency system for mobile edge computing to minimize user terminal energy consumption.However,the resulting optimization problem is originally nonconvex and thus,difficult to solve optimally.To tackle this problem,we developed an energy efficiency optimization algorithm using Block Coordinate Descent(BCD)that decomposes the problem into three convex subproblems.Furthermore,we jointly optimized the number of local computing tasks,number of computing offloaded tasks,trajectories of UAV,and offloading matching relationship between multi-UAVs and multiuser terminals.Simulation results show that the proposed approach is suitable for different channel conditions and significantly saves the user terminal energy consumption compared with other benchmark schemes.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No.2018YFC0830300。
文摘This paper proposes a synchronous parallel block coordinate descent algorithm for minimizing a composite function,which consists of a smooth convex function plus a non-smooth but separable convex function.Due to the generalization of the proposed method,some existing synchronous parallel algorithms can be considered as special cases.To tackle high dimensional problems,the authors further develop a randomized variant,which randomly update some blocks of coordinates at each round of computation.Both proposed parallel algorithms are proven to have sub-linear convergence rate under rather mild assumptions.The numerical experiments on solving the large scale regularized logistic regression with 1 norm penalty show that the implementation is quite efficient.The authors conclude with explanation on the observed experimental results and discussion on the potential improvements.
文摘为验证收发器硬件损耗对通信系统性能的影响,在考虑收发器硬件损耗的情况下,对智能反射面(intelligent reflecting surface,IRS)辅助的携能通信(simultaneous wireless information and power transfer,SWIPT)系统的鲁棒性传输设计进行研究.在考虑基站的最大发射功率、能量收集器的最小接收能量和IRS无源波束成形的约束下,将优化目标设为最大化所有信息接收者的加权和速率,并使用块坐标下降(block coordinate descent,BCD)算法将优化问题分解成多个优化子问题,交替优化.对于基站有源波束成形和IRS无源波束成形的优化问题,分别采用拉格朗日对偶方法和最优化最大化(majorization minimization,MM)算法来解决.仿真结果验证了收发器硬件损耗对系统性能的影响,也证实了信息接收端的硬件损耗要比基站发射端的硬件损耗对系统造成的性能下降更明显.
