With the widespread access of renewable energy, the access scale of distribution network service data acquisition devices and data acquisition frequency have surged. The distribution network acquisition services are rapidly developing towards high-frequency, massive, and computationally intensive directions. It is significant to fully utilize the potential of cloud-edge-end collaboration to enhance the service carrying capacity of the network. Recently, service processing methods based on cloud-edge-end collaboration have been proposed. However, these methods still face several challenges. First, the coupling of long-term constraint guarantees and short-term processing decision optimization makes it difficult for single-slot short-term decisions to achieve long-term constraint coordination. Second, the differentiated performance requirements of services and limited network resources lead to interdependence among multi-device processing decisions. Existing methods lack a collaborative processing mechanism, making it challenging to resolve decision conflicts caused by competition. Finally, most current methods adopt random sampling mechanisms, overlooking the differences among samples in the action experience pool, resulting in poor convergence and optimization performance in resolving competition conflicts under resource-constrained scenarios. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a cloud-edge-end collaborative service processing mechanism for high-frequency data acquisition in distribution network.

Firstly, a cloud-edge-end multi-level collaborative service processing framework for high-frequency acquisition in the distribution network is designed. It constructs differentiated models for local computing, edge processing, and cloud processing to meet the varied computing requirements of data acquisition services. Further, under the premise of ensuring queuing delay and long-term average data collection constraints, the objective of maximizing the amount of cloud-edge-end collaborative processed data is set, which ensures sufficient underlying data support for the normal operation of new power services while reducing queuing delay.

Subsequently, the concept of virtual queues from Lyapunov optimization theory is introduced to transform the original problem into an online optimization problem that only depends on current slot information. It plays an important role in achieving the coordinated guarantee of delay and throughput.

Then, an improved deep Q-network based cloud-edge-end collaborative processing algorithm for distribution network is proposed, which includes five stages of initialization, action selection, conflict resolution, learning, and updating. Specifically, in the action selection and conflict resolution stages, a greedy strategy-based Q-value sorting mechanism is introduced. It selects the action with the highest Q-value as the processing decision of the device for the current slot, and resolves wireless channel and edge server resource selection conflicts caused by multi-device processing decision coupling through edge-end collaboration. In the learning stage, considering the importance of different device services and the confidence of action samples, a dual replay experience pool is designed to ensure sample diversity, effectively avoiding data loss potentially caused by aggressive strategies. This greatly improves the convergence of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm ensures the orderly operation of cloud-edge-end services in distribution networks.

Finally, the effectiveness and rationality of the proposed algorithm are verified through simulation examples. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can increase the amount of cloud-edge-end collaborative processed data by 11.71% and 14.86%, reduce queuing delay by 24.68% and 26.09%. It can also increase the average data acquisition volume by 8.87% and 7.44%. At the same time, it significantly reduces the backlog of device layer queue backlog and greatly improves the convergence speed of the algorithm. The author team will further consider information synchronization and security issues during data transmission and processing.