Distributed Task Scheduling and Edge Collaboration for Network
Reliability Improvement in LEO enabled Smart Grids
Abstract
Summary: Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites has been foreseen as
a promising paradigm to enable reliable connectivity in the Internet of
Things (IoT) enabled smart grids. Considering the limited coverage of
the traditional base station (BS), in this paper, we put the edge
computing servers on the LEO satellites to realize ubiquitous service
coverage and wireless transmission in the power grid environment.
However, the inherent high mobility of LEO satellites poses challenges
in maintaining stable communication links and efficiently managing the
heterogeneous network resources among a myriad of IoT devices, including
those in smart grids. To address these challenges, in this paper, we
propose a collaborative MEC framework leveraging the collaboration
computing among LEO satellites. In the framework, we consider the
dynamic nature of LEO satellite net-works and formulate an optimization
problem to maximize Quality of Experience (QoE) of IoT users. Then, we
adopt the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm to tackle this
dynamic problem. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed
solution not only improves the overall performance of LEO-enabled IoT
networks by reducing the latency and energy consumption of users but
also significantly enhances the efficiency of heterogeneous network
management.