A Delay-Tolerant Data Transmission Scheme for Internet of Vehicles Based on Software Defined Cloud-Fog Networks

Abstract

The low-latency advantages of fog computing can be applied to solve high transmission latency problems of many network architectures in Internet of Vehicles. Therefore, this paper studies the application of fog computing in Internet of Vehicles. Considering that the fog network equipment deployed in Internet of Vehicles is relatively scattered, a new network architecture is proposed, which integrates cloud computing, fog computing and software defined network and other technologies. The proposed framework uses software defined network to centrally control fog network and obtains equipment performance of fog network. Furthermore, the optimal load balancing strategy is developed by communication overhead and other information. Based on time delay modeling of fog network, we study the time delay modeling of cloud-fog network and the energy consumption modeling of fog network. In addition, this paper models the selection process of data transmission network and data calculation execution server of delay-tolerant data as a partially observable Markov decision process optimization strategy in software defined Internet of Vehicles. By observing the state of system, current storage makes optimal decisions on data transmission and selection of computing nodes, thereby minimizing system overhead. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively reduce transmission delay and system overhead, improve data calculation efficiency.

Keywords

• Delay-tolerant data transmission
• software defined network
• fog computing
• the Internet of Vehicles
• load balancing strategy
• partially observable Markov decision process