Computation Energy Efficiency Maximization for Intelligent Reflective Surface-Aided Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

A wide variety of Mobile Devices (MDs) are adopted in Internet of Things (IoT) environments, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volume of task data and greenhouse gas emissions. However, due to the limited battery power and computing resources of MD, it is critical to process more data with less energy. This article studies the Wireless Power Transfer-based Mobile Edge Computing (WPT-MEC) network system assisted by Intelligent Reflective Surface (IRS) to enhance communication performance while improving the battery life of MD. In order to maximize the Computation Energy Efficiency (CEE) of the system and reduce the carbon footprint of the MEC server, we jointly optimize the CPU frequencies of MDs and MEC server, the transmit power of Power Beacon (PB), the processing time of MEC server, the offloading time and the energy harvesting time of MDs, the local processing time and the offloading power of MD and the phase shift coefficient matrix of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS). Moreover, we transform this joint optimization problem into a fractional programming problem. We then propose the Dinkelbach Iterative Algorithm with Gradient Updates (DIA-GU) to solve this problem effectively. With the help of convex optimization theory, we can obtain closed-form solutions, revealing the correlation between different variables. Compared to other algorithms, the DIA-GU algorithm not only exhibits superior performance in enhancing the system's CEE but also demonstrates significant reductions in carbon emissions.