Hybrid deep learning model based on Intelligent Microbat Routing (IMR) and Popularity Content Caching (PCC) for an effective caching and routing in vehicular edge networks

Abstract

Vehicular networks are considered as one of the paramount components of intelligent transportation systems. With the help of new advanced technologies like Internet of things (IoT), and many wireless applications such as 5 G/6 G, these vehicular networks has changed its face of applications in terms of computations, communications and privacy. The arising vehicular applications such as crash awareness and emergency brake requires better communication, storage resources, and computation with severe execution prerequisites on response time and network bandwidth. But still, efficient data computation with an intelligent routing mechanism still remains to be darker side of the research. To achieve the improvisation in above parameters, this paper proposes the hybrid combination of the Intelligent Microbat Routing (IMR) and Deep learning based Popularity Content Caching (PCC) techniques which has been targeted for IoT based vehicular networks. This paper introduces the Reinforced Gated Recurrent Units (R-GRU) with High Speed Extreme Learning Machines for better prediction of contents’ popularity that aids for better caching. The proposed IMR-PCC architecture consists of four different tasks such as popularity prediction, cache placement, data retrieval and effective routing. The extensive experimentation is carried out to evaluate the IMR-PCC by implementing the dynamic network topology with multi factors, which directly impacts on the performance of the complete system. Nearly 300,000 contents were collected randomly and the complete algorithm was implemented in the OMNET++ interfaced with Python 3.8. Finally from the experimental results, the proposed IMR-PCC architecture proved its excellence in terms of accuracy (98.6%), precision (98.6%), recall (98.6%), F1-Score (98.8%), cache hit ratios (0.25), latency (0.3), Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) (99%) than other existing methodologies such as Q-learning, BLSTME, MPCF, ICN. So the proposed IMR-PCC achieved the better Quality of Service (QoS) as well as executes cache performance which is highly suitable for the vehicular IoT networks.