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Title RJCC: Reinforcement-Learning-Based Joint Communicational-and-Computational Resource Allocation Mechanism for Smart City IoT
ID_Doc 39239
Authors Xu, SY; Liu, QC; Gong, B; Qi, F; Guo, SY; Qiu, XS; Yang, C
Title RJCC: Reinforcement-Learning-Based Joint Communicational-and-Computational Resource Allocation Mechanism for Smart City IoT
Year 2020
Published Ieee Internet Of Things Journal, 7, 9
DOI 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3002427
Abstract With the fast development of smart cities and 5G, the amount of mobile data is growing exponentially. The centralized cloud computing mode is hard to support the continuous exchanging and processing of information generated by millions of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Therefore, mobile-edge computing (MEC) and software-defined networking (SDN) are introduced to form a cloud-edge-terminal collaboration network (CETCN) architecture to jointly utilize the communicational and computational resources. Although the CETCN brings many benefits, there still exist some challenges, such as the unclear operation mode, low utilization of edge resources, as well as the limited energy of terminals. To address these problems, a reinforcement learning-based joint communicational-and-computational resource allocation mechanism (RJCC) is proposed to optimize overall processing delay under energy limits. In RJCC, a Q-learning-based online offloading algorithm and a Lagrange-based migration algorithm are designed to jointly optimize computation offloading across multisegments and on edge platform, respectively. The simulation results show that the proposed RJCC outperforms the delay-optimal, energy-optimal, and edge-to-terminal offloading algorithm by 42%-74% in long-term average energy consumption while maintaining relatively low delay.
Author Keywords Cloud-edge-terminal collaboration networks (CETCNs); computation offloading; Lyapunov optimization; reinforcement learning; smart city Internet of Things (IoT); software-defined networking (SDN)
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000571765000019
WoS Category Computer Science, Information Systems; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications
Research Area Computer Science; Engineering; Telecommunications
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