Title
Smart fog based workflow for traffic control networks
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel traffic control architecture which is based on fog computing paradigm and reinforcement leaning technologies. We firstly provide an overview of this framework and detail the components and workflows designed to relieve traffic congestion. These workflows, which are connecting traffic lights, vehicles, Fog nodes and traffic cloud, aim to generate traffic light control flow and communication flow for each intersection to avoid a traffic jam. In order to make the whole city’s traffic highly efficient, the fog computing paradigm and a distributed reinforcement learning algorithm is designed to overcome communication bandwidth limitation and local optimal traffic control flow, respectively. We also demonstrate that our framework outperforms traditional systems and provides high practicability in future research for building the intelligent transportation system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.future.2019.02.058
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fog computing,Traffic congestion,Reinforcement learning,WorkFlows
Architecture,Traffic signal,Computer science,Control flow,Real-time computing,Communication bandwidth,Intelligent transportation system,Workflow,Traffic congestion,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
97
0167-739X
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiang Wu130440.42
Jun Shen2208.82
Binbin Yong3215.23
Jun Shen423440.40
Fucun Li562.52
Jinqiang Wang641.11
Qingguo Zhou710329.48