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| Title | Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation For Urban Traffic Flow Prediction In Edge-Cloud Computing |
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| ID_Doc | 23509 |
| Authors | Ali A.; Ullah I.; Singh S.K.; Sharafian A.; Jiang W.; I. Sherazi H.; Bai X. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Published | International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2025, 1 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/int/1863025 |
| Abstract | Understanding complex traffic patterns has become more challenging in the context of rapidly growing city road networks, especially with the rise of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) systems that add further dynamics to traffic flow management. This involves understanding spatial relationships and nonlinear temporal associations. Accurately predicting traffic in these scenarios, particularly for long-term sequences, is challenging due to the complexity of the data involved in smart city contexts. Traditional ways of predicting traffic flow use a single fixed graph structure based on the location. This structure does not consider possible correlations and cannot fully capture long-term temporal relationships among traffic flow data, making predictions less accurate. We propose a novel traffic prediction framework called Multi-scale Attention-Based Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolution Recurrent Network (MASTGCNet) to address this challenge. MASTGCNet records changing features of space and time by combining gated recurrent units (GRUs) and graph convolution networks (GCNs). Its design incorporates multiscale feature extraction and dual attention mechanisms, effectively capturing informative patterns at different levels of detail. Furthermore, MASTGCNet employs a resource allocation strategy within edge computing to reduce energy usage during prediction. The attention mechanism helps quickly decide which services are most important. Using this information, smart cities can assign tasks and allocate resources based on priority to ensure high-quality service. We have tested this method on two different real-world datasets and found that MASTGCNet predicts significantly better than other methods. This shows that MASTGCNet is a step forward in traffic prediction. Copyright © 2025 Ahmad Ali et al. International Journal of Intelligent Systems published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Author Keywords | attention mechanism; edge computing; internet of vehicles; resource allocation; smart city; traffic prediction |
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