Provisioning edge computing services in urban areas through the chaining of unmanned aerial vehicles: A genetic approach

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Title: Provisioning edge computing services in urban areas through the chaining of unmanned aerial vehicles: A genetic approach
Authors: Zhihai Tang, AiWen Huang, Le Chang
Source: Electronics Letters, Vol 60, Iss 6, Pp n/a-n/a (2024)
Publisher Information: Wiley, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: LCC:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Subject Terms: Edge computing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Route plan, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, TK1-9971
More Details: Abstract Edge computing has been proved an efficient approach to provisioning computation offloading service to vehicles on road through Road‐Side Units (RSUs). However, the traffic volume on road is highly dynamic, while RSU‐based edge servers are static in terms of geographical location and computation capacity. To address this problem, this paper proposes a mobile edge server placement strategy using cruising UAVs along the roads based on the genetic algorithm. A mathematical model is first built to characterize the deployment cost of these UAV‐mounted servers and their routes. Next, a heuristic UAV‐mounted edge server deployment scheme based on K‐medoid clustering and genetic algorithms is designed. Experimental results verify that the proposed UAV deployment scheme satisfies the offloading demand of IoV nodes while reducing the total deployment cost by 17.05–48.94% compared with existing popular approaches.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1350-911X
0013-5194
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/0013-5194; https://doaj.org/toc/1350-911X
DOI: 10.1049/ell2.13157
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/90ab0680cf094046ad1453597a87bdde
Accession Number: edsdoj.90ab0680cf094046ad1453597a87bdde
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:1350911X
00135194
DOI:10.1049/ell2.13157
Published in:Electronics Letters
Language:English