Resource Allocation in Decentralized Vehicular Edge Computing Network

Abstract

Computation-intensive vehicle tasks sharply increase with the rapid growth of intelligent vehicles. The technology of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has the possibility of assisting vehicles with computation offloading. To solve the problem of computation resource management and guarantee the security of resource transaction, we jointly combine the MEC network and the blockchain networks to build a blockchain based MEC offloading model. The non-cooperative interactions between MEC server and vehicles formulate a two-stage Stackelberg game in an aim to maximize their benefits and information security. We theoretically demonstrate the unique existence of Nash equilibrium, which enables participants to decide their optimal strategies. Finally, the performance of the proposed model is analyzed by conducting simulation experiments. Our proposed model optimizes resource allocation and also improves the security of the whole network.

Keywords

• mobile edge computing
• blockchain
• stackelberg game
• resource allocation