A Novel Contract Theory-Based Incentive Mechanism for Cooperative Task-Offloading in Electrical Vehicular Networks

The proliferation of compute-intensive services in next-generation vehicular networks will impose an unprecedented computation demand to meet stringent latency and resource requirements. Vehicular edge or fog computing has been a widely adopted solution to enhance the computational capacity of vehicular networks; however, the computation requirements of these compute hungry applications will surpass the capabilities of such a solution. To address this challenge, the on-board resources of neighboring mobile vehicles can be utilized. However, such resource utilization requires an incentive mechanism to motivate privately owned neighboring vehicles to participate in sharing their resources. In this paper, the authors propose a contract theory-based incentive mechanism that maximizes the social welfare of the vehicular networks by motivating neighboring vehicles to participate in sharing their resources. The proposed approach enables the Road Side Units (RSUs) to provide appropriate rewards by offering a tailored contract to each resource sharing vehicle based on their contribution and unique characteristics. Moreover, they derive an optimal contract scheme for computational task offloading, taking into account the individual rationality and incentive-compatible constraints. Finally, the authors perform numerical evaluations to demonstrate the effectiveness of their proposed scheme. The proposed scheme achieves up to 28% higher computing resource utilization, 17.2% lower energy consumption per computing resource utilization, and 17.1% lesser energy consumption per task completed when compared to the linear pricing incentive baseline.

• Record URL:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2021.3078913
• Record URL:
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9440722
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/41297384
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2022, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Kazmi, S M Ahsan
  • Nguyen Dang, Tri
  • Yaqoob, Ibrar
  • Manzoor, Aunas
  • Hussain, Rasheed
  • Khan, Adil
  • Hong, Choong Seon
  • Salah, Khaled
• Publication Date: 2022-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 8380-8395
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 1524-9050
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Contracts; Electric vehicles; Task analysis; Vehicle to vehicle communications; Vehicular ad hoc networks
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01852026
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 2022 11:30AM