Fully-Decentralized Fairness-Aware Federated MEC Small-Cell Peer-Offloading for Enterprise Management Networks

In order to fit the requirements of future enterprise management networks with multiple service providers, conventional mobile edge computing enabled small cells (MEC-SCs) peer-offloading requires research efforts towards fully-decentralized computation-efficient global-optimal quality of service (QoS) aware load balancing, while ensuring service providers’ privacy protection. In this article, we propose a new fully-decentralized on-demand MEC-SC peer-offloading NETwork (named DEEP-NET), targeting QoS-aware load balancing with enhanced latency and service providers’ privacy protection. Newly developed federated gradient descent based algorithm is fully decentralized to MEC-SCs, which only requires local data and privacy-free inter-MEC-SC data sharing to achieve global optimal QoS-/latency-aware fairness. Result analysis for convergence of the proposed DEEP-NET provides guidance to the future topology optimization of fully-decentralized on-demand MEC-SC deployment. Besides, DEEP-NET outperforms the benchmarks with dynamic user demand to achieve optimal load balancing, with enhanced QoS, latency, and service providers’ privacy.