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Main Authors: Farooq, Muhammad Junaid, Zhu, Quanyan
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Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08331
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author Farooq, Muhammad Junaid
Zhu, Quanyan
author_facet Farooq, Muhammad Junaid
Zhu, Quanyan
contents Efficient allocation of finite resources is a crucial problem in a wide variety of on-demand smart city applications. Service requests often appear randomly over time and space with varying intensity. Resource provisioning decisions need to be made strategically in real-time, particularly when there is incomplete information about the time, location, and intensity of future requests. In this paper, we develop a systematic approach to the dynamic resource provisioning problem at a centralized source node to spatio-temporal service requests. The spatial statistics are combined with dynamically optimal decision-making to derive recursive threshold based allocation policies. The developed results are easy to compute and implement in real-time applications. For illustrative purposes, we present examples of commonly used utility functions, based on the power law decay and exponential decay coupled with exponentially, and uniformly distributed intensity of stochastic arrivals to demonstrate the efficacy of the developed framework. Semi-closed form expressions along with recursive computational procedure has been provided. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed policies in comparison with less strategic methodologies.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Resource Provisioning for On-Demand Urban Services in Smart Cities
Farooq, Muhammad Junaid
Zhu, Quanyan
Systems and Control
Efficient allocation of finite resources is a crucial problem in a wide variety of on-demand smart city applications. Service requests often appear randomly over time and space with varying intensity. Resource provisioning decisions need to be made strategically in real-time, particularly when there is incomplete information about the time, location, and intensity of future requests. In this paper, we develop a systematic approach to the dynamic resource provisioning problem at a centralized source node to spatio-temporal service requests. The spatial statistics are combined with dynamically optimal decision-making to derive recursive threshold based allocation policies. The developed results are easy to compute and implement in real-time applications. For illustrative purposes, we present examples of commonly used utility functions, based on the power law decay and exponential decay coupled with exponentially, and uniformly distributed intensity of stochastic arrivals to demonstrate the efficacy of the developed framework. Semi-closed form expressions along with recursive computational procedure has been provided. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed policies in comparison with less strategic methodologies.
title Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Resource Provisioning for On-Demand Urban Services in Smart Cities
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08331