Task Partition-Based Intelligent Offloading for Cache-Assisted Cloud-Edge Cooperation Networks

To satisfy the differentiated service requirements of delay-sensitive and computing-intensive tasks, it is urgent to efficiently allocate limited network resources to improve content distribution in cloud-edge environments. In this paper, we proposes a task partition-based intelligent offloading scheme to optimize resource allocation in cache-assisted cloud-edge cooperation environments. Specifically, we formulate the task partition-based optimal computation offloading problem as a latency minimization model in the cache-aided cloud-edge collaboration system. A new deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm is designed to make optimal subtask offloading and resource allocation decisions based on current network state information, improving resource utilization and network delay. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves lower-latency content delivery than the existing popular models in cache-enabled cloud-edge cooperation networks, and fast converges.