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Main Authors: Li, Qianren, Hong, Yuncong, Lv, Bojie, Wang, Rui
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11333
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author Li, Qianren
Hong, Yuncong
Lv, Bojie
Wang, Rui
author_facet Li, Qianren
Hong, Yuncong
Lv, Bojie
Wang, Rui
contents In this paper, the task offloading from vehicles with random velocities is optimized via a novel dynamic improvement framework. Particularly, in a vehicular network with multiple vehicles and base stations (BSs), computing tasks of vehicles are offloaded via BSs to an edge server. Due to the random velocities, the exact trajectories of vehicles cannot be predicted in advance. Hence, instead of deterministic optimization, the cell association, uplink time and throughput allocation of multiple vehicles in a period of task offloading are formulated as a finite-horizon Markov decision process. In the proposed solution framework, we first obtain a reference scheduling scheme of cell association, uplink time and throughput allocation via deterministic optimization at the very beginning. The reference scheduling scheme is then used to approximate the value functions of the Bellman's equations, and the actual scheduling action is determined in each time slot according to the current system state and approximate value functions. Thus, the intensive computation for value iteration in the conventional solution is eliminated. Moreover, a non-trivial average cost upper bound is provided for the proposed solution framework. In the simulation, the random trajectories of vehicles are generated from a high-fidelity traffic simulator. It is shown that the performance gain of the proposed scheduling framework over the baselines is significant.
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spellingShingle A Dynamic Improvement Framework for Vehicular Task Offloading
Li, Qianren
Hong, Yuncong
Lv, Bojie
Wang, Rui
Systems and Control
Networking and Internet Architecture
In this paper, the task offloading from vehicles with random velocities is optimized via a novel dynamic improvement framework. Particularly, in a vehicular network with multiple vehicles and base stations (BSs), computing tasks of vehicles are offloaded via BSs to an edge server. Due to the random velocities, the exact trajectories of vehicles cannot be predicted in advance. Hence, instead of deterministic optimization, the cell association, uplink time and throughput allocation of multiple vehicles in a period of task offloading are formulated as a finite-horizon Markov decision process. In the proposed solution framework, we first obtain a reference scheduling scheme of cell association, uplink time and throughput allocation via deterministic optimization at the very beginning. The reference scheduling scheme is then used to approximate the value functions of the Bellman's equations, and the actual scheduling action is determined in each time slot according to the current system state and approximate value functions. Thus, the intensive computation for value iteration in the conventional solution is eliminated. Moreover, a non-trivial average cost upper bound is provided for the proposed solution framework. In the simulation, the random trajectories of vehicles are generated from a high-fidelity traffic simulator. It is shown that the performance gain of the proposed scheduling framework over the baselines is significant.
title A Dynamic Improvement Framework for Vehicular Task Offloading
topic Systems and Control
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11333