JOURNAL ARTICLE

RAVEN: Resource Allocation Using Reinforcement Learning for Vehicular Edge Computing Networks

Yanhao ZhangNalam Venkata AbhishekMohan Gurusamy

Year: 2022 Journal:   IEEE Communications Letters Vol: 26 (11)Pages: 2636-2640   Publisher: IEEE Communications Society

Abstract

<p dir="ltr">Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) enables vehicles to offload tasks to the road side units (RSUs) to improve the task performance and user experience. However, blindly offloading the vehicle’s tasks might not be an efficient solution. Such a scheme may overload the resources available at the RSU, increase the number of requests rejected, and decrease the system utility by engaging more servers than required. This letter proposes a Markov Decision Process based Reinforcement Learning (RL) method to allocate resources at the RSU. The RL algorithm aims to train the RSU in optimizing its resource allocation by varying the resource allocation scheme according to the total task demands generated by the traffic. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.</p>

Keywords:
Computer science Reinforcement learning Resource allocation Server Markov decision process Task (project management) Scheme (mathematics) Markov process Resource management (computing) Edge computing Computer network Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution Distributed computing Resource (disambiguation) Artificial intelligence

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Citation History

Topics

IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Computer Networks and Communications
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Information Systems
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