An Adaptive Computing Offloading and Resource Allocation Strategy for Internet of Vehicles Based on Cloud-Edge Collaboration

With the development of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) industry, the introduction of cloud-edge collaboration has greatly enhanced the computing capabilities of vehicle networks. However, optimizing computing offloading and resource allocation strategies in IoV to reduce latency and energy consumption at the vehicle terminals remains a challenge. This paper proposes an Adaptive Computing Offloading and Resource Allocation Strategy (ACORAS) for IoV based on cloud-edge collaboration. Firstly, a Vehicles-Collaborative Road Side Units-Cloud (VCRSUC) system architecture is constructed by considering the use of idle resources on edge servers at remote Road Side Unit (RSU) to reduce the total cost at the vehicle terminals. Secondly, the discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm is combined with chaotic mapping and Cauchy mutation, and dynamically adjusts weights and learning factors based on variable updates. Finally, our proposed ACORAS gradually approaches the optimization of the computing offloading decisions and resource allocation decisions through iterative calculations. Simulation results show that our proposed ACORAS can effectively reduce the total cost while considering latency and energy consumption, demonstrating superior performance compared to traditional algorithms.