Edge Oriented Urban Hotspot Prediction for Human-Centric Internet of Things

Abstract

Mobile edge computing works well with the rapid growth of human-centric IoT applications by providing timely and in-situ data caching and processing. Edge oriented urban hotspot prediction is to predict the high traffic regions in case to provide basis for further deployment and replenishment of edge servers. Most of the existing hotspot analysis work is not well suited for human-centric IoT application scenarios especially for large-scale urban city areas. Instead, in this paper we propose edge-oriented hotspot prediction scheme based on information Interactive Graph Attention Networks (I-GAN) for urban city within the human-centric IoT and MEC application scenarios. I-GAN makes reasoning on the user service needs by learning the interactive relations of multifaceted human-centric factors: including online human behavior and offline crowd flow through graph attention networks. On the other hand, I-GAN makes representation of urban-scale edge service capability by graph embeddings through inductive learning with distributed multi-layer graph convolutions. Based on it, I-GAN makes matching between them and then predicts the edge-oriented hotspots with time variance. The performance evaluations are based on realistic dataset of a southern city of China provided by China Unicom. I-GAN is compared with the other related hotspot analysis schemes. The results show that I-GAN is with much better prediction accuracy with multiple time dimensions.