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Optimal resource management and allocation for autonomous-vehicle-infrastructure cooperation under mobile edge computing

Shengpei Zhou (Shenyang Institute of Automation (Guangzhou) Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China)
Zhenting Chang (Guangzhou Public Transport Group Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China)
Haina Song (Department of School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China)
Yuejiang Su (Department of School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China)
Xiaosong Liu (Guangdong Zhongke Zhenheng Information Technology Co., Ltd., Foshan, China)
Jingfeng Yang (Shenyang Institute of Automation (Guangzhou) Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Department of School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SUN YAT-SEN University, Guangzhou, China)

Assembly Automation

ISSN: 0144-5154

Article publication date: 14 June 2021

Issue publication date: 22 July 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

With the continuous technological development of automated driving and expansion of its application scope, the types of on-board equipment continue to be enriched and the computing capabilities of on-board equipment continue to increase and corresponding applications become more diverse. As the applications need to run on on-board equipment, the requirements for the computing capabilities of on-board equipment become higher. Mobile edge computing is one of the effective methods to solve practical application problems in automated driving.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, in accordance with practical requirements, this paper proposed an optimal resource management allocation method of autonomous-vehicle-infrastructure cooperation in a mobile edge computing environment and conducted an experiment in practical application.

Findings

The design of the road-side unit module and its corresponding real-time operating system task coordination in edge computing are proposed in the study, as well as the method for edge computing load integration and heterogeneous computing. Then, the real-time scheduling of highly concurrent computation tasks, adaptive computation task migration method and edge server collaborative resource allocation method is proposed. Test results indicate that the method proposed in this study can greatly reduce the task computing delay, and the power consumption generally increases with the increase of task size and task complexity.

Originality/value

The results showed that the proposed method can achieve lower power consumption and lower computational overhead while ensuring the quality of service for users, indicating a great application prospect of the method.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the 2018 industrial internet innovation and development project – Basic Standards and experimental verification of industrial internet edge computing, the National Key Research and Development Program (No. 2018YFB2003500, 2018YFB1700200), Foshan entrepreneurship and innovation team project (2017IT100032). The authors would like to thank several anonymous reviewers and readers in China and abroad who gave valuable comments and suggestions.

Citation

Zhou, S., Chang, Z., Song, H., Su, Y., Liu, X. and Yang, J. (2021), "Optimal resource management and allocation for autonomous-vehicle-infrastructure cooperation under mobile edge computing", Assembly Automation, Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 384-392. https://doi.org/10.1108/AA-02-2021-0017

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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