A machine-learning based time constrained resource allocation scheme for vehicular fog computing

Abstract

Through integrating advanced communication and data processing technologies into smart vehicles and roadside infrastructures, the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has evolved as a promising paradigm for improving safety, efficiency of the transportation system. However, the strict delay requirement of the safety-related applications is still a great challenge for the ITS, especially in dense traffic environment. In this paper, we introduce the metric called Perception-Reaction Time (PRT), which reflects the time consumption of safety-related applications and is closely related to road efficiency and security. With the integration of the incorporating information-centric networking technology and the fog virtualization approach, we propose a novel fog resource scheduling mechanism to minimize the PRT. Furthermore, we adopt a deep reinforcement learning approach to design an on-line optimal resource allocation scheme. Numerical results demonstrate that our proposed schemes is able to reduce about 70% of the RPT compared with the traditional approach.