Orchestration of MEC Computation Jobs and Energy Consumption Challenges in 5G and Beyond

Abstract

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) technology philosophy inspires the next generation mobile networks to provide cloud computing capabilities in addition to a diverse range of Information Technology (IT) services with ultra-low latency and higher bandwidth at the edge. One of the most common challenges of 5G-MEC is the management and orchestration across all networks and infrastructure resources as well as end-to-end quality of experience. The decentralized architecture of MEC with independent and non-collaborative servers results in the situation of having underutilized servers with wasted energy. Moreover, the consequences of having highly utilized servers with highly consumed energy are not only the incapability to accommodate all the load of the computing jobs and the dramatic increase in the total OPEX cost, but it also creates some environmental problems. Orchestrating servers’ workload and control offloading the computation jobs is one of the technical advantages of MEC since it satisfies the increasing requirements of modern mobile applications while optimizing the energy consumption and cost. In this work, we consider cluster-based energy-aware offloading framework. The proposed work consists of dual-tier domain divided into clusters of Edge Servers $ES_{s} $ . We have presented the results of our simulation as a proof of our concept that the formulated adaptive strategy to minimize the optimization problem calculation per cluster reduces the energy consumption and enhances the quality of experience while achieving the conservation of the related computing and storage resources cost.

Keywords

• MEC
• IT
• 5G
• OPEX (operating expense)
• edge servers