Cooperative Network-Computation Load Balancing Simulator for Vehicular Edge Computing

Abstract

To enhance the performance of autonomous driving, recent studies have been incorporating various tasks that require increasingly more computation. As computational demands increase, it is often difficult to achieve timely execution with the limited performance of onboard computing units alone. To address this issue, Vehicle Edge Computing (VEC), which offloads computational workloads to the edge and retrieves the results back to the vehicle, is gaining significant attention. To achieve efficient offloaded analytics via VEC, it is crucial to comprehensively consider both of the computing and network conditions of the V2X systems, as well as the vehicle energy consumption and timely execution. However, current studies have not sufficiently addressed the comprehensive modeling of computational and network loads in these V2X systems. To deal with this, we propose a Cooperative Network-Computation Load Balancing Simulator for VEC. © 2024 IEEE.