BIT-MCS/DRL-MTVCS

[INFOCOM 2020] Multi-Task-Oriented Vehicular Crowdsensing: A Deep Learning Approach

DRL-MTVCS

This is the code accompanying the paper: "Multi-Task-Oriented Vehicular Crowdsensing: A Deep Learning Approach", published in IEEE INFOCOM 2020.

📄 Description

With the popularity of drones and driverless cars, vehicular crowdsensing (VCS) becomes increasingly widely-used by taking advantage of their high-precision sensors and durability in harsh environments. Since abrupt sensing tasks usually cannot be prepared beforehand, we need a generic control logic fit-for-use all tasks which are similar in nature, but different in their own settings like Point-of-Interest (PoI) distributions. The objectives include to simultaneously maximize the data collection amount, geographic fairness, and minimize the energy consumption of all vehicles for all tasks, which usually cannot be explicitly expressed in a closed-form equation, thus not tractable as an optimization problem. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based centralized control, distributed execution framework for multi-task-oriented VCS, called "DRL-MTVCS". It includes an asynchronous architecture with spatiotemporal state information modeling, multi-task-oriented value estimates by adaptive normalization, and auxiliary vehicle action exploration by pixel control. We compare with three baselines, and results show that DRL-MTVCS outperforms all others in terms of energy efficiency when varying different numbers of tasks, vehicles, charging stations and sensing range.

🔧 Installation

1. Clone repo

   git clone https://github.com/BIT-MCS/DRL-MTVCS.git
   cd DRL-MTVCS

2. Install dependent packages

   conda create -n mcs python==3.8
   conda activate mcs
   pip install tensorflow-gpu==1.15
   pip install -r requirements.txt

💻 Training

Train our solution

python experiment.py --mode=train --logdir=./log

Use pupulation-based training (PBT) to tune the parameters [experimental]

python pbt_train.py

🏁 Testing

Test with the trained models

python experiment.py --mode=test --logdir=./log

Random test the env

python test_crazymcs.py

👏 Reference

• https://github.com/deepmind/scalable_agent

📜 Acknowledgement

This paper was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61772072).
Corresponding author: Chi Harold Liu.

📧 Contact

If you have any question, please email 3120215520@bit.edu.cn.

Paper

If you are interested in our work, please cite our paper as

@INPROCEEDINGS{liu2020task,
    author={Liu, Chi Harold and Dai, Zipeng and Yang, Haoming and Tang, Jian},
    booktitle={IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)},   
    title={Multi-Task-Oriented Vehicular Crowdsensing: A Deep Learning Approach},   
    year={2020},  
    pages={1123-1132},  
}