Measurement: Sensors (Aug 2024)
Data traffic unloading method of internet of things based on mobile edge computing
Abstract
The Industrial Internet of Things integrates modern technologies such as intelligent terminals, computer technology, and big data, achieving low cost and high applicability in industrial production processes, and improving industrial production efficiency. The offloading of IoT data traffic requires significant energy consumption due to limited mobile terminal device resources. For this reason, the author designs a method of IoT data traffic unloading based on mobile edge computing. The initialization simulation parameters include the number of mobile users, the number of base stations equipped with edge servers, fixed bandwidth, base station height, etc. Calculate the distance and channel power gain from each base station to mobile users, and optimize power allocation through algorithms such as simulated annealing and PSO. The binary PSO algorithm is used to maximize the welfare in edge computing. Finally, by comparing with local offloading, utilizing layered offloading methods, and collaborative computing offloading methods based on fiber wireless networks. Simulation results: The energy consumption of SAPA is generally higher than that of PSO, and with the increase of mobile users, the energy consumption of both algorithms shows a significant growth trend. Especially, SAPA's energy consumption is significantly higher than PSO when the number of users is 40 and 60. This indicates that in the mobile network environment, PSO algorithm has more advantages in energy consumption than SAPA, By using particle swarm optimization algorithm to further optimize energy consumption, it greatly saves energy consumption. In comparison to local execution, the proposed offloading method yields substantial energy savings of nearly 62.5 %. The maximum difference in energy consumption between the proposed method and the collaborative computing offloading method based on fiber optic wireless networks is 268 J, while the maximum difference compared to the layered offloading method is 150 J. These results highlight the strategy's ability to enhance the computational efficiency of high-priority tasks on edge servers, concurrently reducing latency and energy consumption for task completion. This underscores the effectiveness of the proposed offloading method in conserving energy and emphasizes its practical significance.
