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Energy-Aware Opportunistic Charging and Energy
4 F5 h% m) ^+ xDistribution for Sustainable Vehicular Edge and Fog . F" g5 U1 G, w4 ~0 \
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The fast-growing popularity of electric vehicles + z8 H" v8 I0 ~/ ~
(EVs) poses complex challenges for the existing power grid
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Discovering and transferring energy amongst EVs in mobile 7 _/ c' w; J' p. s3 e
vehicular edges and fogs is expected to be an effective solution for 7 r5 a; K2 d5 n& J/ R
bringing energy closer to where the demand is and improving the $ ?& N+ N3 ]+ ]( V* z7 Z4 j
scalability and flexibility compared to traditional charging ( T, i( E' w+ P) p# z
solutions. In this paper, we propose a fully-distributed energy3 m; Z2 S% D5 ^- d, y; c+ ~
aware opportunistic charging approach which enables distributed
7 z" q0 W0 v. Qmulti-layer adaptive edge cloud platform for sustainable mobile
, \$ v9 @. V& e/ n T( _autonomous vehicular edges which host dynamic on-demand
! g6 A0 h8 ~4 f+ P8 g" t6 ivirtual edge containers of on-demand services. We introduce a 0 l3 Z W% q, a& n( y$ J, C
novel Reinforcement Learning (Q-learning) based SmartCharge
' G8 p( B/ F% D1 [2 T' p3 K- E4 ualgorithm formulated as a finite Markov Decision Process. We + a* w1 X8 J1 a, l+ I2 B+ H
define multiple edge energy states, transitions and possible actions # u V9 \( T% C2 p+ P
of edge nodes in dynamic complex network environments which ! G! X- n# ?( `7 p3 h" x. h3 Q& X
are adaptively resolved by multilayer real-time multidimensional ; O# V! |4 K5 ]1 I
predictive analytics. This allows SmartCharge edge nodes to more
/ w6 q5 m0 ^1 @2 g3 w W* Raccurately capture, predict and adapt to dynamic spatial-temporal 3 j) \7 w- M: m Y& u
energy supply and demand as well as mobility patterns when 9 F6 w' L3 U' X# g* g
energy peaks are expected. More specifically, SmartCharge edge " |$ H* l7 [0 E! e# N( K0 ?/ r2 c
nodes are able to autonomously and collaboratively understand . y$ j/ A4 f0 v/ e6 y
when (how soon) and where the geo-temporal peaks are expected
: ~/ \" m. S/ Eto happen, thus enable better local prediction and more accurate
l' G( r, J" [, {/ c( j2 Mglobal distribution of energy resources. We provide multi-criteria 8 y, s1 y) b4 P0 l9 n z
evaluation of SmartCharge against competitive protocols over
: }* w8 L; m1 Q q9 V6 Z1 K6 Hreal-world San Francisco Cab mobility traces and in the presence ' T) i7 D5 R+ Y1 T
of real-world users’ energy interest traces driven by Foursquare + t# T0 q) V% f8 x# t' _- w) @
San Francisco dataset. We show that SmartCharge successfully
1 y; x+ O A0 ]8 H/ q9 `8 [8 Y9 apredicts and mitigates congestion in peak charging hours, reduces
6 x1 c7 b& z( @" k, ^' ~, I W! kthe waiting time between vehicles sending energy demand requests + N) O' g% A2 L3 h* c
and being successfully charged as well as significantly reduces the 9 W% o, o/ O/ b9 J. U
total number of vehicles in need of energy.
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