Data driven hybrid edge computing-based hierarchical task guidance for efficient maritime escorting with multiple unmanned surface vehicles

The widespread use of mobile devices and sensors has motivated data-driven applications that can leverage the power of big data to benefit many aspects of our daily life, such as health, transportation, economy, and environment. Under the context of smart city, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), such as a main building block of modern cities and edge computing (EC), as an emerging computing service that targets addressing the limitations of cloud computing, have attracted increasing attention in the research community in recent years. It is well believed that the application of EC in ITS will have considerable benefits to transportation systems regarding efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Despite the growing trend in ITS and EC research, a big gap in the existing literature is identified: the intersection between these two promising directions has been far from well explored. In this paper, we focus on a critical part of ITS, i.e., sensing, and conducting a review on the recent advances in ITS sensing and EC applications in this field. The key challenges in ITS sensing and future directions with the integration of edge computing are discussed.

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Efficient Interference Estimation with Accuracy Control for Data-Driven Resource Allocation in Cloud-RAN

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s18093000 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 3000 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yanchao Zhao ◽

Jie Wu ◽

Wenzhong Li ◽

Sanglu Lu

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Measurement Data ◽

Network Size ◽

Base Station ◽

Edge Computing ◽

Sensor Nodes ◽

Data Driven ◽

Accuracy Control ◽

Computing Paradigm

The emerging edge computing paradigm has given rise to a new promising mobile network architecture, which can address a number of challenges that the operators are facing while trying to support growing end user’s needs by shifting the computation from the base station to the edge cloud computing facilities. With such powerfully computational power, traditional unpractical resource allocation algorithms could be feasible. However, even with near optimal algorithms, the allocation result could still be far from optimal due to the inaccurate modeling of interference among sensor nodes. Such a dilemma calls for a measurement data-driven resource allocation to improve the total capacity. Meanwhile, the measurement process of inter-nodes’ interference could be tedious, time-consuming and have low accuracy, which further compromise the benefits brought by the edge computing paradigm. To this end, we propose a measurement-based estimation solution to obtain the interference efficiently and intelligently by dynamically controlling the measurement and estimation through an accuracy-driven model. Basically, the measurement cost is reduced through the link similarity model and the channel derivation model. Compared to the exhausting measurement method, it can significantly reduce the time cost to the linear order of the network size with guaranteed accuracy through measurement scheduling and the accuracy control process, which could also balance the tradeoff between accuracy and measurement overhead. Extensive experiments based on real data traces are conducted to show the efficiency of the proposed solutions.

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