Task Offloading and Serving Handover of Vehicular Edge Computing Networks Based on Trajectory Prediction

Abstract

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to ensure the realtime task processing caused by the emerging 5G or high level intelligent assisted driving applications. The computing tasks can be processed via the edge services deployed at the roadside units (RSUs) or moving vehicles. However, the high dynamic topology of the vehicular communication system and the time-varying available computing resources in RSUs make a challenge of the efficient task offloading of vehicles. In this paper, we consider an efficient task offloading scheme for VEC networks based on trajectory prediction, we focus on the serving handover between the adjacent RSUs. The moving vehicles can cooperate with RSUs or the surrounding vehicles for task processing. To reduce the latency of task transmission between vehicles, we present a cooperative vehicle selection method based on trajectory prediction. Then, we propose an efficient task offloading scheme based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL), while the dynamically available computing and communication resources are considered jointly. The simulation results show that the proposed task offloading scheme has great advantages in improving the utility of vehicles.INDEX TERMS Internet of vehicles, edge computing, trajectory prediction, task offloading, deep reinforcement learning

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