Stackelberg Game-Driven Computational Offloading in Edge Computing Scenarios

With the number of users that use mobile devices for frequent transactions increasing rapidly, it is a great challenge to guarantee the credibility of transactions. Blockchain is regarded as a practical technology for such demand, however, the limited computing capacity of each user's device becomes a bottleneck. In this paper, the edge computing pattern is introduced to support complex computing for mobile devices of users by renting computing resource from computing service providers. By considering demands of both the user and the service provider, we propose a two-level game approach based on the Stackelberg Game for multiple users and multiple service providers on computing resources renting and pricing. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism is feasible and effective.