Why This Matters

Centralized route planning services expose cities to data privacy risks and latency issues, particularly during emergencies when reliable low-latency service is critical. This work is innovative because it leverages distributed edge computing infrastructure to provide privacy-preserving, low-latency route planning by pushing computation to the network edge. The decentralized design improves resilience and enables timely service delivery without relying on distant cloud data centers.

What We Did

This paper proposes a decentralized route planning service using Road Side Units as computing resources to provide real-time route planning while preserving privacy in smart cities. The system divides the city into grids with RSUs responsible for route planning tasks in their geographic areas, avoiding centralized cloud dependencies. The approach includes algorithms for task allocation and decentralized route planning that account for communication latency and model accuracy when assigning queries to RSUs.

Key Results

The system demonstrated the ability to respond to 1000 queries with only 5-7.5% accuracy loss compared to optimal centralized grid allocation when varying neighbor levels. By using neighbor RSUs with controlled accuracy tradeoffs, the approach achieved 30% decrease in processing time while maintaining model accuracy of 99% or higher. The system showed effective task allocation optimization that balances response latency with model accuracy across distributed edge devices.

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Cite This Paper

@inproceedings{rsuicfc2020,
  author = {Talusan, Jose Paolo and Wilbur, Michael and Dubey, Abhishek and Yasumoto, Keiichi},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC)},
  title = {On Decentralized Route Planning Using the Road Side Units as Computing Resources},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
  abstract = {Residents in cities typically use third-party platforms such as Google Maps for route planning services. While providing near real-time processing, these state of the art centralized deployments are limited to multiprocessing environments in data centers. This raises privacy concerns, increases risk for critical data and causes vulnerability to network failure. In this paper, we propose to use decentralized road side units (RSU) (owned by the city) to perform route planning. We divide the city road network into grids, each assigned an RSU where traffic data is kept locally, increasing security and resiliency such that the system can perform even if some RSUs fail. Route generation is done in two steps. First, an optimal grid sequence is generated, prioritizing shortest path calculation accuracy but not RSU load. Second, we assign route planning tasks to the grids in the sequence. Keeping in mind RSU load and constraints, tasks can be allocated and executed in any non-optimal grid but with lower accuracy. We evaluate this system using Metropolitan Nashville road traffic data. We divided the area into 500 grids, configuring load and neighborhood sizes to meet delay constraints while maximizing model accuracy. The results show that there is a 30 percent decrease in processing time with a decrease in model accuracy of 99 percent to 92.3 percent, by simply increasing the search area to the optimal grid{\textquoteright}s immediate neighborhood.},
  category = {selectiveconference},
  contribution = {colab},
  keywords = {decentralized routing, edge computing, road side units, privacy-preserving, smart cities, task allocation},
  tag = {decentralization,transit}
}
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Year 2020
Keywords
decentralized routing edge computing road side units privacy-preserving smart cities task allocation
Research Areas
transit planning middleware scalable AI
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