Matching-based Service Offloading for Compute-less Driven IoT Networks

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks, edge computing is offering new opportunities for business model and use cases innovations. Service providers can now virtualize the cloud beyond the data center to meet the latency, data sovereignty, reliability, and interoperability requirements. Yet, many new applications (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence) are computation-intensive and delay-sensitivity. These applications are invoked heavily with similar inputs that could lead to the same output. Compute-less networks aim to implement a network with a minimum amount of computation and communication. This can be realized by offloading prevalent services to the edge and thus minimizing communication in the core network and eliminating redundant computations using the computation reuse concept. In this paper, we present matching-based services offloading schemes for compute-less IoT networks. We adopt the matching theory to match service offloading to the appropriate edge server(s). Specifically, we design, WHISTLE, a vertical many-to-many offloading scheme that aims to offload the most invoked and highly reusable services to the appropriate edge servers. We further extend WHISTLE to provide horizontal one-to-many computation reuse sharing among edge servers which leads to bouncing less computation back to the cloud. We evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of WHISTLE with a real-world dataset. The obtained findings show that WHISTLE is able to accelerate the tasks completion time by 20%, reduce the computation up to 77%, and decrease the communication up to 71%. Theoretical analyses also prove the stability of the designed schemes.