Dynamic Offloading Control for Waste Sorting Based on Deep Q-Network
摘要
With the increasing concern for environmental protection and resource optimization, efficient waste sorting has become a serious challenge today. In this paper, we propose a new offloading control problem that aims to solve waste sorting in wireless bin communication networks. Due to limited computational power, bins belonging to embedded devices rely on simple classification models with varying accuracy. In this scenario, consider a network of intelligent bins, each acting as an independent agent capable of deciding to offload an image to the edge server with a more accurate but resource-intensive model when the local classification is deemed inaccurate. Thus, Our goal is to find a lightweight online offloading policy that can achieve the best possible sorting accuracy while balancing transmission traffic. The method utilizes a Deep Q-network algorithm that enables each intelligent bin to make image-processing decisions autonomously. In the experiment, we validate the effectiveness of improving the performance of waste classification compared with existing flow control methods.