Distributed optimal control for traffic networks with fog computing

This paper presents a distributed optimization strategy for large-scale traffic network based on fog computing. Different from the traditional cloud-based centralized optimization strategy, the fog-based distributed optimization strategy distributes its computing tasks to individual sub-processors, thus significantly reducing computation time. A traffic model is built and a series of communication rules between subsystems are set to ensure that the entire transportation network can be globally optimized while the subsystem is achieving its local optimization. Finally, this paper numerically simulates the operation of the traffic network by mixed-Integer programming, also, compares the advantages and disadvantages of the two optimization strategies.