Mobile Vehicular Edge Computing Architecture using Rideshare Taxis as a Mobile Edge Server

Abstract

We propose to utilize rideshare taxis as infrastructure for both communication and computation. Rideshare overlays become hence Mobile Edge Nodes. End-users utilize near rideshare taxis as edge servers to receive video chunks for live video streaming. The set cover problem (SCP) is used to formulate the rideshare taxis coverage optimization inside the city. It provides the maximum number of rideshare taxis that cover end-users routes which guarantee the efficiency of communication services. Simulation results show that the proposed architecture dramatically enhances the quality of service and the overall communication performance in terms of execution time and energy consumption.