Dynamic Services Migration Based on Dueling Deep Q-Network in MEC

As an extended computing paradigm of cloud computing, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) facilitates real-time service responses by deploying resources near network edges. However, services should frequently move among multiple edge computing servers because of the mobility of most users, which accordingly leads to increased network operation costs and influences service quality. In this paper, we formulate the service migration problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and introduce the dueling Deep Q-Network (DQN) to solve the problem, so as to reduce the network operating cost without lowering the service quality. We also propose a trajectory prediction approach to further optimize the service migration. Simulation experimental results demonstrate that the proposed mechanism can achieve a lower network operation cost without reducing the service quality.