Title
Sustainable Vehicle-Assisted Edge Computing for Big Data Migration in Smart Cities
Abstract
Smart cities are based on connected devices generating large quantities of data every instant. These data can be stored at a nearby edge location for initial processing but later sending the data to the backend data centers for storage and further analysis consumes considerable network bandwidth. In this article, we propose a large-scale data migration framework using vehicles. The framework uses a neural network to identify suitable vehicles as data mules, ones moving toward the data destination, potentially reducing the load from backend networks in terms of bandwidth usage and overall energy consumption. We compare the framework with data transfers using the traditional Internet and an approach without machine intelligence. The proposed framework performs well in terms of data loss, transfer time, energy, and CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> emissions. From experiments, we demonstrate that the approach achieves a 67% success rate with data transfers <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$193\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> faster than the average Internet bandwidth of 21.28 Mb/s. Moreover, the resulting CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> emissions for 30-TB data transfers stood at 6.403 kg, which is significantly lower compared to 1172.8 kg for the Internet.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/JIOT.2019.2957127
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Data transfer,Smart cities,Sensors,Bandwidth,Internet of Things,Data centers,Cloud computing
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2327-4662
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Kanwal110.35
Asad Waqar Malik24116.31
Anis Rahman3247.54
Imran Mahmood4176.57
Muhammad Shahzad510.35