Energy-Efficient Task Computation at the Edge for Vehicular ServicesShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2025, NOMS 2025, IEEE, 2025, p. 1-10Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services, such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to nearby servers. Effective offloading involves determining when to offload tasks, selecting the appropriate MEC site, and efficiently allocating resources to ensure optimal performance. While car mobility poses significant challenges to guaranteeing reliable task completion, today we lack energy-efficient solutions to solve this problem, especially when considering real-world car mobility traces. In this paper, we begin by examining the mobility patterns of cars using data obtained from a leading mobile network operator in Europe. Based on the insights from this analysis, we design an optimization problem for task computation/offloading, considering both static and mobility scenarios. Our objective is to minimize the total energy consumption - both at the cars and the MEC nodes - while satisfying the latency requirements of various tasks. We evaluate our solution, based on multi-agent reinforcement learning, both in simulations as well as in a realistic setup that relies on datasets from the operator. Our solution shows a significant reduction of user dissatisfaction and task interruptions in both static and mobile scenarios, while achieving energy savings of 47% (static) and 14% (mobile) compared to state-of-the-art schemes.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2025. p. 1-10
Keywords [en]
Computation offloading, Computational efficiency, Energy efficiency, Energy utilization, Green computing, Intelligent agents, Mobile telecommunication systems, Autonomous driving, Car mobility, Computational resources, Computing sites, Edge computing, Energy efficient, Low latency, Multiaccess, Optimal performance, Static scenarios, Multi agent systems
National Category
Computer Sciences Communication Systems Computer Systems
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-106511DOI: 10.1109/NOMS57970.2025.11073636ISI: 001556086900064Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105012206789ISBN: 979-8-3315-3163-8 (electronic)ISBN: 979-8-3315-3164-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-106511DiVA, id: diva2:1988080
Conference
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2025, NOMS 2025, 12-16 May, 2025.
Funder
Knowledge Foundation2025-08-112025-08-112026-02-12Bibliographically approved