# Data offloading in mobile edge computing: A coalitional game based pricing approach

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04148 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.04148/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 13 Sep 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A Proactive Management Scheme for Data Synopses at the Edge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.10558/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Mobile edge computing (MEC), affords service to the vicinity of mobile devices (MDs), has become a key technology for future network. Offloading big data to the MEC server for preprocessing is a attractive choice of MDs. In the paper, we investigate data offloading from MDs to MEC servers. A coalitional game based pricing scheme is proposed. We apply coalitional game to depict the offloading relationship between MDs and MEC servers, and utilize pricing as the stimuli for the offloading. A scheduled MD chooses one MEC server within the same coalition for offloading, and pays the selected MEC server for the MEC service. We formulate a coalitional game, where MDs and MEC servers are players and their utilities are respectively defined. Next, we analyze the formulated game. Specially, the core is studied. Finally, utility performance of the proposed scheme under the 2-MD and 2-MEC- server scenario are demonstrated.