Deep Learning-Assisted Energy-Efficient Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Systems

In this paper, we study an energy-efficient computation offloading for vehicular edge computing systems, where multiple roadside units assist vehicular users to offload computation tasks to edge servers. Our goal is to minimize the users’ energy consumption by optimizing user association, data partition, transmit power, and computation resources, subject to the constraints of partial tasks offloading, user latency, maximum transmit power, outage performance, and computation capacity of edge servers. We utilize deep learning for user association to avoid combinatorial complexity, and develop an efficient optimization algorithm to optimize other variables. The resulting algorithm has scalable complexity with convergence guarantee, as confirmed by our theoretical analysis. Simulation results demonstrate that the introduced resource allocation algorithm can significantly reduce the total energy consumption of users.