Deep Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Computing in Cellular V2X Networks

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2021-01, Vol.21 (2), p.372
• Main Authors: Li, Dongji, Xu, Shaoyi, Li, Pengyu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Communication; Computer centers; Deep learning; deep reinforcement learning; double deep q network; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Game theory; Internet of Things; mobile edge computing; Network latency; Optimization algorithms; Resource allocation; Servers; vehicle-to-everything; Vehicles; Wireless networks
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s21020372

With the rapid development of vehicular networks, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications have huge number of tasks to be calculated, which brings challenges to the scarce network resources. Cloud servers can alleviate the terrible situation regarding the lack of computing abilities of vehicular user equipment (VUE), but the limited resources, the dynamic environment of vehicles, and the long distances between the cloud servers and VUE induce some potential issues, such as extra communication delay and energy consumption. Fortunately, mobile edge computing (MEC), a promising computing paradigm, can ameliorate the above problems by enhancing the computing abilities of VUE through allocating the computational resources to VUE. In this paper, we propose a joint optimization algorithm based on a deep reinforcement learning algorithm named the double deep Q network (double DQN) to minimize the cost constituted of energy consumption, the latency of computation, and communication with the proper policy. The proposed algorithm is more suitable for dynamic scenarios and requires low-latency vehicular scenarios in the real world. Compared with other reinforcement learning algorithms, the algorithm we proposed algorithm improve the performance in terms of convergence, defined cost, and speed by around 30%, 15%, and 17%.