Computation Offloading in Optical Access Cloudlet Networks: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Abstract

Computation offloading to edge-computing technologies is highly desirable to enable the use of low-latency computation intensive mobile-Applications. To meet the desired latency requirements, overloaded cloudlets can further offload the incoming job requests to their under-loaded neighbor cloudlets. A novel economic and non-cooperative continuous-kernel game theoretic model is proposed to analyze the computation offloading strategies between cloudlets of competing service providers, supported by optical access networks. This model achieves a fairness in resource utilization as well as provides incentives to the participants. We investigate the existence and uniqueness conditions of the pure ..