Edge server placement for offloading real‐time statistics tasks of bus passenger

Abstract

AbstractWith the continuous development of smart bus systems, higher requirements are expected for the accuracy and timeliness of the real‐time statistics of bus passengers. Although the statistical method of image and video processing based on deep learning has higher accuracy, it has higher requirements on the computing power and hardware equipment of the computer. A traditional solution is cloud computing, but cloud computing cannot meet real‐time requirements due to long‐distance transmission. In order to meet the real‐time demand, it can be offloaded to the edge of the network and processed by edge servers. In edge computing, the location of the edge server will have a great impact on the access delay and the traffic load in the edge network. Currently, few people optimize the traffic load in the edge network during the placement process. In view of this, an edge server placement algorithm for task offloading, named ESPTO, is designed to balance the average delay and traffic load under the control of each edge server while minimizing the average delay and traffic load in the edge network. First, a decomposition‐based multi‐objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) is used to find a better set of placement strategies, and then the optimal placement strategy is obtained through TOPSIS. Experimental results based on the Hangzhou bus station dataset prove the effectiveness of ESPTO.