Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Networking for Electric Vehicles Networks in Smart Future Cities

Abstract

Electric vehicles networks have become hot topics in research and industry and played an important role in smart future cities. However, high energy consumption is a significantly challenge for these applications. This article proposes a electric vehicles cloud computing framework to perform energy-efficient heterogeneous networking for electric vehicles network in smart future cities. The software-defined networking ideas is used to enable different devices including electric vehicles to access the cloud computing network for electric vehicles connected. The edge computing is exploited to run quick computing and communication for these application. Then an energy-efficient heterogeneous networking method is presented to overcome high energy consumption. The mixed integer linear programming optimization model and two heuristic models are proposed to perform energy-efficient networking. An networking algorithm is proposed to achieve highly energy-efficient networking for electric vehicles network. The detailed simulation experiments are conducted to validate our approach. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed method is efficient and feasible.