Edge and Central Cloud Computing: A Perfect Pairing for High Energy Efficiency and Low-latency
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In this paper, we study the coexistence and synergy between edge and central cloud computing in heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), in which multi-antenna small base stations (SBSs) empowered by clouds at the edge offer computing services for user equipments (UEs), whereas a macro base station (MBS) provides computing services from a central cloud via a high-speed backhaul. With processing latency constraints at the edge cloud and backhaul, we aim to minimize the network energy consumption (the energy used for task offloading as well as computation) through jointly optimizing the cloud selection, the UE's transmit power, the SBS's receive beamformer, and the SBS's transmit covariance matrix. We devise a tractable solution that can achieve great performance gain over conventional schemes. With large-scale antennas at the MBS, the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) backhaul can significantly reduce the complexity of our algorithm and obtain even better performance.
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