Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Computation Offloading in Multi-IRS Assisted Mobile Edge Computing Networks

Abstract

Mobile edge computing (MEC) as a potential technology can offload tasks from user devices (UDs) to network edges to alleviate network congestion and reduce task execution delay. However, computation offloading faces two challenges: 1) Poor wireless channel quality causes high transmission delay; 2) Computing tasks may be obtained by eavesdroppers (Eves) during task offloading. Therefore, we consider deploying intel-ligent reflecting surface (IRS) in MEC networks to increase data transmission rate and ensure data transmission security. This paper investigates the issue of joint computation offloading and resource allocation in a multi-IRS assisted MEC network. Our goal is to minimize task execution delay. To address this problem, we propose a multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm to determine the optimal offloading strategy for each UD. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce task execution delay and ensure data transmission security.