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To ensure the effectiveness of task execution for mobile vehicles under high-speed conditions, this paper regards intelligent vehicles as edge nodes and establishes a dynamic offloading model in Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) scenarios. A dynamic task offloading strategy based on optimal stopping theory is proposed to minimize the overall latency generated during the offloading process while ensuring the effectiveness of task execution. By analyzing the potential migration paths of tasks in V2V scenarios, we construct a dynamic migration model and design a migration benefit function, transforming the problem into an asset-selling problem in optimal stopping theory (OST). At the same time, it is proven that there exists an optimal stopping rule for the problem. Finally, the optimal migration threshold is determined by solving the optimal stopping rule through dynamic programming, guiding the task vehicle to choose the best target service vehicle. Comparisons between the proposed TMS-OST strategy and three other peer offloading strategies show that TMS-OST can significantly reduce the total offloading latency, select service vehicles with shorter distances using fewer detection attempts, guarantee service quality while lowering detection costs, and achieve high average offloading efficiency and average offloading distance efficiency.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi18010018","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,29]],"date-time":"2025-12-29T00:50:42Z","timestamp":1766969442000},"page":"18","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Dynamic Offloading Strategy Based on Optimal Stopping Theory in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Scenarios"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"An","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Applied Mathematics of Guangxi, Yulin Normal University, Yulin 537000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiaxuan","family":"Ling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Aerospace Technology, Guilin 541004, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yeqiang","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Applied Mathematics of Guangxi, Yulin Normal University, Yulin 537000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mingliang","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Electronic Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3016-9037","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gaocai","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Electronic Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"103366","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jnca.2022.103366","article-title":"Computation offloading in mobile edge computing networks: A survey","volume":"202","author":"Feng","year":"2022","journal-title":"J. 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