Dynamic Service Migration via Approximate Markov Decision Process in Mobile Edge-Clouds

Author(s):  
Zhuoling Chen ◽  
Hong Yao ◽  
Lin Gu ◽  
Deze Zeng ◽  
Kun Zheng
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anhua Ma ◽  
Su Pan ◽  
Shuai Tao ◽  
Weiwei Zhou

Abstract With the rapid development of mobile internet cloud computing, the traditional network structure becomes non-suitable for advanced network traffic requirements. A service migration decision algorithm is proposed in the Software Defined Network(SDN) to satisfy differential Quality of Service(QoS) requirements. We divide services into real-time ones and non-real-time ones due to their different requirements on time delay and transmission rates, and construct the revenue function on two QoS attributes i.e. time delay and available transmission rates. We use the Markov decision process to maximize the overall benefits of users and network system to achieve the best user experience. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm achieves better performance in terms of overall benefits than the exiting algorithms only considering single service and single QoS attribute.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 1272-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiqiang Wang ◽  
Rahul Urgaonkar ◽  
Murtaza Zafer ◽  
Ting He ◽  
Kevin Chan ◽  
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Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1385
Author(s):  
Irais Mora-Ochomogo ◽  
Marco Serrato ◽  
Jaime Mora-Vargas ◽  
Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei

Natural disasters represent a latent threat for every country in the world. Due to climate change and other factors, statistics show that they continue to be on the rise. This situation presents a challenge for the communities and the humanitarian organizations to be better prepared and react faster to natural disasters. In some countries, in-kind donations represent a high percentage of the supply for the operations, which presents additional challenges. This research proposes a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model to resemble operations in collection centers, where in-kind donations are received, sorted, packed, and sent to the affected areas. The decision addressed is when to send a shipment considering the uncertainty of the donations’ supply and the demand, as well as the logistics costs and the penalty of unsatisfied demand. As a result of the MDP a Monotone Optimal Non-Decreasing Policy (MONDP) is proposed, which provides valuable insights for decision-makers within this field. Moreover, the necessary conditions to prove the existence of such MONDP are presented.


Author(s):  
Yuanchen Zeng ◽  
Dongli Song ◽  
Weihua Zhang ◽  
Bin Zhou ◽  
Mingyuan Xie ◽  
...  

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