MARL based resource allocation scheme leveraging vehicular cloudlet in automotive-industry 5.0

[en] Automotive-Industry 5.0 will use Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G) communications to provide robust, abundant computation resources and energy-efficient data sharing among various Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) entities. Based on the vehicle communication network, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is created, where vehicles’ resources, including processing, storage, sensing, and communication units, can be leveraged to construct Vehicular Cloudlet (VC) to realize resource sharing. As Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) onboard computing is becoming more potent, VC resources (comprising stationary and moving vehicles’ idle resources) seems a promising solution to tackle the incessant computing requirements of vehicles. Furthermore, such spare computing resources can significantly reduce task requests’ delay and transmission costs. In order to maximize the utility of task requests in the system under the maximum time constraint, this paper proposes a Secondary Resource Allocation (SRA) mechanism based on a dual time scale. The request service process is regarded as M/M/1 queuing model and considers each task request in the same time slot as an agent. A Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) is constructed and combined with the Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithm known as QMix, which exploits the overall vehicle state and queue state to reach effective computing resource allocation decisions. There are two main performance metrics: the system’s total utility and task completion rate. Simulation results reveal that the task completion rate is increased by 13%. Furthermore, compared with the deep deterministic policy optimization method, our proposed algorithm can improve the overall utility value by 70% and the task completion rate by 6%.

Disciplines :

Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Ahmed, Manzoor

Liu, Jinshi

Mirza, Muhammad Ayzed

KHAN, Wali Ullah ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

Al-wesabi, Fahd N.

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

MARL based resource allocation scheme leveraging vehicular cloudlet in automotive-industry 5.0

Alternative titles :

[en] MARL based resource allocation scheme leveraging vehicular cloudlet in automotive-industry 5.0

Publication date :

19 October 2022

Journal title :

Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences

ISSN :

1319-1578

eISSN :

2213-1248

Publisher :

Elsevier

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Focus Area :

Security, Reliability and Trust

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319157822003627

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