A Cluster-based Virtual Edge Computation Offloading Scheme for MEC-enabled Vehicular Networks

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has received a great deal of attention in recent years from many researchers. Recently, vehicular edge computing has been a new paradigm to support computation-intensive and latency-sensitive services in IoV. Moreover, with the cellular-vehicle to everything technology, many tasks and applications can be efficiently offloaded to another node for processing. In this paper a novel cluster-based virtual edge computation offloading scheme is proposed, which has as its main objective to efficiently find the most suitable multi-hop neighbor to act as a virtual edge computing (VEC) server for task offloading. The proposed scheme is initially based on the formation and maintenance of multi-hop clusters with high stability, whereas its efficiency is further enhanced by the local/distributed computations taking place where it's possible.