Quantum Inspired Vehicular Network Optimization for Intelligent Decision Making in Smart Cities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24971v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:04:50 GMT
• Title: Quantum Inspired Vehicular Network Optimization for Intelligent Decision Making in Smart Cities
• Abstract summary: This paper presents QIVNOM, a quantum-inspired framework that jointly optimize vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication.<n>Results show that QIVNOM reduces mean end-to-end latency to 57.3ms, approximately $20%$ lower than the best baseline.
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• Abstract: Connected and automated vehicles require city-scale coordination under strict latency and reliability constraints. However, many existing approaches optimize communication and mobility separately, which can degrade performance during network outages and under compute contention. This paper presents QIVNOM, a quantum-inspired framework that jointly optimizes vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication together with urban traffic control on classical edge--cloud hardware, without requiring a quantum processor. QIVNOM encodes candidate routing--signal plans as probabilistic superpositions and updates them using sphere-projected gradients with annealed sampling to minimize a regularized objective. An entanglement-style regularizer couples networking and mobility decisions, while Tchebycheff multi-objective scalarization with feasibility projection enforces constraints on latency and reliability. The proposed framework is evaluated in METR-LA--calibrated SUMO--OMNeT++/Veins simulations over a $5\times5$~km urban map with IEEE 802.11p and 5G NR sidelink. Results show that QIVNOM reduces mean end-to-end latency to 57.3~ms, approximately $20\%$ lower than the best baseline. Under incident conditions, latency decreases from 79~ms to 62~ms ($-21.5\%$), while under roadside unit (RSU) outages, it decreases from 86~ms to 67~ms ($-22.1\%$). Packet delivery reaches $96.7\%$ (an improvement of $+2.3$ percentage points), and reliability remains $96.7\%$ overall, including $96.8\%$ under RSU outages versus $94.1\%$ for the baseline. In corridor-closure scenarios, travel performance also improves, with average travel time reduced to 12.8~min and congestion lowered to $33\%$, compared with 14.5~min and $37\%$ for the baseline.

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