Computation Offloading Algorithm Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Task Dependency for Edge Computing

Edge computing is an emerging promising computing paradigm that brings computation and storage resources to the network edge, significantly reducing service latency. In this paper, we aim to divide the task into several sub-tasks through its inherent interrelation, guided by the idea of high concurrency for synchronization, and then offload sub-tasks to other edge servers so that they can be processed to minimize the cost. Furthermore, we propose a DRL-based Multi-Task Dependency Offloading Algorithm (MTDOA) to solve challenges caused by dependencies between sub-tasks and dynamic working scenes. Firstly, we model the Markov decision process as the task offloading decision. Then, we use the graph attention network to extract the dependency information of different tasks and combine Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) with Deep Q Network (DQN) to deal with time-dependent problems. Finally, simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm boasts good convergence ability and is superior to several other baseline algorithms, proving this algorithm’s effectiveness and reliability.