An SMDP-Based Resource Allocation in Vehicular Cloud Computing Systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7920-7928

  Zheng, Kan ^a   Meng, Hanlin ^a   Chatzimisios, Periklis ^b   Lei, Lei ^c   Shen, Xuemin ^d  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

resource allocation; Semi Markov Decision Process (SMDP); Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC)

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; ALGORITHMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPLEX NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

COMPUTATION RESOURCES; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; ITERATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SEMI-MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; SERVICE REQUIREMENTS; TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY; VEHICULAR CLOUDS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84947559115     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2482119     Document Type: Article

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