MARBLE: Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandit for Lightweight and Efficient Job Offloading in UAV-Based Mobile Networks

In this paper we propose MARBLE, a distributed framework based on multi-player multi-armed bandit algorithms that aims to support job offloading procedures in FANETs to comply with strict job latency requirements while also minimizing the energy consumption of the system, thus also increasing the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) flight duration. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework, we conduct an extensive evaluation campaign and compare MARBLE with several baselines, including a centralized, oracle-based approach. Our results show that MARBLE outperforms the baselines and quickly converges to the performance of the centralized approach in a fully-distributed manner, in compliance with the latency and energy efficiency requirements.