TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward Hierarchical Mobile Edge Computing
T2 - An Auction-Based Profit Maximization Approach
AU - Kiani, Abbas
AU - Ansari, Nirwan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the NSF under Grant CNS-1647170.
Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 8, 2017; revised May 18, 2017; accepted August 22, 2017. Date of publication September 8, 2017; date of current version December 11, 2017. This work was supported by the NSF under Grant CNS-1647170. (Corresponding author: Nirwan Ansari.) The authors are with the Advanced Networking Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102 USA (e-mail: abbas.kiani@njit.edu; nirwan.ansari@njit.edu). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2750030
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© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - The multitiered concept of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, cloudlets, and clouds is facilitating a user-centric IoT. However, in such three tier network, it is still desirable to investigate efficient strategies to offer the computing, storage, and communications resources to the users. To this end, this paper proposes a new hierarchical model by introducing the concept of field, shallow, and deep cloudlets where the cloudlet tier itself is designed in three hierarchical levels based on the principle of LTE-advanced backhaul network. Accordingly, we explore a two time scale approach in which the computing resources are offered in an auction-based profit maximization manner and then the communications resources are allocated to satisfy the users' quality of service.
AB - The multitiered concept of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, cloudlets, and clouds is facilitating a user-centric IoT. However, in such three tier network, it is still desirable to investigate efficient strategies to offer the computing, storage, and communications resources to the users. To this end, this paper proposes a new hierarchical model by introducing the concept of field, shallow, and deep cloudlets where the cloudlet tier itself is designed in three hierarchical levels based on the principle of LTE-advanced backhaul network. Accordingly, we explore a two time scale approach in which the computing resources are offered in an auction-based profit maximization manner and then the communications resources are allocated to satisfy the users' quality of service.
KW - Hierarchical network architecture
KW - Internet of Things (IoT)
KW - mobile edge computing
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U2 - 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2750030
DO - 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2750030
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039158957
SN - 2327-4662
VL - 4
SP - 2082
EP - 2091
JO - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
JF - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IS - 6
M1 - 8030317
ER -