Server Hazard Risk Awareness User Allocation in Urban-Scale Edges

Ensheng Liu, Gaofeng Zhang, Liqiang Xu, Wenming Wu, Benzhu Xu, Liping Zheng

Abstract: Edge computing deploys edges close to end-users to provide highly accessible resources and latency-sensitive services. It is invaluable for urban crowd/hazard management services, e.g., real-time dynamic route planning and hazard monitoring/analysis, etc. However, in such scenarios, various types of urban hazards jeopardize the usability of edge servers. Worsely, these hazards could be integrated, like gas fires caused by urban earthquakes. In this regard, the formulation of usability risks that servers face is intractable due to the complexity, incomplete real-time data and insufficient expert knowledge of these integrated hazards. Therefore, we innovatively define the usability risks as Server Hazard Risk model from the view of the spatial data field by utilizing Information Diffusion technique which can overcome the adverse conditions above. Then we involve it to formulate the Server Hazard Risk User Allocation (SR-UA) problem, and analyze three typical solutions from the perspective of optimality and efficiency, which are the Lexicographic Goal Programming approach (SR-UA-LGP), the Approximation approach (SR-UA-A) and the Particle Swarm Optimization-based approach (SR-UA-PSO). The extensive experiments based on two real-world datasets illustrate the superior performance of our model and solutions.