Acting Selfish for the Good of All: Contextual Bandits for Resource-Efficient Transmission of Vehicular Sensor Data

07/20/2020

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by   Benjamin Sliwa, et al.

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as a novel client-based method for resource-efficient opportunistic transmission of delay-tolerant vehicular sensor data. BS-CB applies a hybrid approach which brings together all major machine learning disciplines - supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning - in order to autonomously schedule vehicular sensor data transmissions with respect to the expected resource efficiency. Within a comprehensive real world performance evaluation in the public cellular networks of three Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), it is found that 1) The average uplink data rate is improved by 125 apparently selfish goal of data rate optimization reduces the amount of occupied cell resources by 84 consumption can be reduced by 53 buffering delay due to the opportunistic medium access strategy.