Resource Allocation for Twin Maintenance and Task Processing in Vehicular Edge Computing Network

In the digital twin mobile edge network, the maintenance of the vehicle twin model and vehicular task processing in the server require the support of computing resources. In addition, they are performed simultaneously. Therefore, how to allocate resources for twin maintenance and task processing under limited server resources is crucial. However, current research tends to ignore the aspect of resource competition for twin maintenance. In this study, we analyze the delays of these two affected by resource allocation under a generic digital twin mobile edge network (DTMEN) to construct the optimization problem. For this problem, we transformed the problem using a Markov decision process. Meanwhile, we propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MADRL) based twin maintenance and task processing resource collaborative scheduling (TMTPRCS) algorithm to solve the problem. Experiments show that our proposed approach is effective in terms of resource allocation compared to other alternative algorithms.