Research Article

DIMDP: A Driving Intention-Based MDP Service Migration Model under MEC/MSCN Architecture

Table 1

Explanation for Algorithm 1’s variables and functions.

Variable/functionExplanation

pifProbability set of forward area migration inclining events
Service request data size
Service migration data size
The data size of frame structure
The coverage radius of RSU
Vehicle speed
fService request frequency
The minimal average total cost
SThe optimal migration strategy, a service migration event occurring when
get_Pmatrix (pif, N)Obtain the state transition probability matrix P according to pif at migration distance N
get_state (, N)Obtain the row probability vector of states at the migration distance N according to (3) and (-4)
Get_cost (Cset, , N)Obtain the average total cost according to (18). Cset is