Slice Sandwich: Jagged Slicing Multi-Tier Dynamic Resources for Diversified V2X Services

With the advancement of intelligent transportation systems, a series of diversified V2X applications come into being, which have different key performance indicators (KPIs) and transmission features. Moreover, multi-tier computing as a new system-level architecture distributes computing and communication capabilities anywhere between the cloud and the end-user. Unfortunately, the existing network paradigm for V2X services adopts a one-shot allocation of resources ignoring the inherent differences of V2X service. To cope with these problems, three types of refined network slices for V2X services are first proposed to simultaneously support heterogeneous service characteristics without excessively splitting resources. Considering the spatiotemporal correlation between service traffic and physical resources, a jagged slicing in multi-tier dynamic resources, which forms a “slice sandwich” brightly, is realized by a dual timescale intelligent resource management scheme. The inter-slice resource configuration is based on neural bandits with upper confidence bounds at each large-time period, while the exclusive resources are managed elastically by deep Q-learning in terms of the real-time changing network state in the small slot. We developed a simulation environment by Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) including real-world road conditions and traffic models. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can effectively guarantee KPIs of V2X services and improve the system revenue compared with benchmark algorithms.