Multi-Access Edge Computing using Mode Division Multiple Access

In order to meet the demand for bigger data and lower time of processing data in future industry and daily life, the paper proposes a scheme combining multi-access edge computing (MEC) and mode division multiple access (MDMA). To greatly reduce the MEC system transmission and data processing time of a scenario where multiple devices offload the large amount of data onto the MEC server within the coverage area of base station, modes are used as new communication resources with frequency to form resources blocks which will be allocated. Because the model of MEC system using MDMA contains continuous and boolean variables and the exclusive constraints about using resources blocks, the paper proposes an algorithm combining modified differential evolution (DE), tournament selection (TS) and logical operation, which has a great performance.