MP-DDPG: Optimal Latency-Energy Dynamic Offloading Scheme in Collaborative Cloud Networks

Growing technologies like virtualization and artificial intelligence have become more popular on mobile devices. But lack of resources faced for processing these applications is still major hurdle. Collaborative edge and cloud computing are one of the solutions to this problem. We have proposed a multi-period deep deterministic policy gradient (MP-DDPG) algorithm to find an optimal offloading policy by partitioning the task and offloading it to the collaborative cloud and edge network to reduce energy consumption. Our results show that MP-DDPG achieves the minimum latency and energy consumption in the collaborative cloud network.