Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Resilient Design for MEC Offloading over Millimeter Wave Links

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The merge of mobile edge computing (MEC) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications will hopefully enable the fast access for computational resources, where these two technologies can benefit from each other's potentials.

• However, the high susceptibility to blocking in mmWave networks imposes crucial challenges for further development of mmWave-MEC vision.
• In this paper, a novel intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted mmWave-MEC scheme is proposed to overcome the disruptive effect caused by blockage events.
• In this context, we investigate new methods to minimize mobile power for a multi-user mmWave-MEC system, thus efficiently orchestrating the uplink mobile power resources for latency-constrained computation offloading.