Fair Joint Offloading and Consensus Optimization in Blockchain-Enabled Mobile Edge Computing

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Authors: Libo Feng, Chenxi Wang, Zhenli He, Mengzhuang Liu, Jixian Zhang, Keqin Li
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Abstract

Blockchain-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) must jointly optimizetask offloadingandconsensus finalityunder highly heterogeneous AIoT devices, where latency/energy constraints and fairness-sensitive incentives coexist with time-varying validator reliability. We proposeFE-CTDE, a unified framework that couples (1) a Stackelberg pricing-and-allocation layer that reaches a unique equilibrium and reduces utility disparity, (2) a reliability-aware dynamic BFT committee and block-packing mechanism that stabilizes confirmation delay under intermittent connectivity, and (3) a centralized-training/decentralized-execution multi-agent policy that outputs a continuous offloading ratio while requiring only local observations at run time. Extensive simulations across diverse heterogeneity, workload burstiness, and link intermittency show that FE-CTDE consistently improves social welfare and fairness while reducing end-to-end latency/energy and sustaining highereffectiveconsensus throughput, outperforming strong baselines by up to22.23%. We further report protocol/learning overheads and provide reproducible implementation details.

Fields of Study & Subjects

IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing

Publication details

Journal / source
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Volume
25
Issue
9
Pages
14719–14736
Publication date
16 April 2026