VehiCloud: Cloud computing facilitating routing in vehicular networks

Yang Qin, Dijiang Huang, Xinwen Zhang

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52 Scopus citations

Abstract

Establishing reliable routing among highly mobile vehicles is a challenging problem in vehicular networks. Towards this issue, we present VehiCloud, a novel cloud computing architecture that leverages emerging cloud computing technologies to deal with unreliable inter-vehicle communications and extend the restricted computational capabilities of mobile devices. A way-point information framework (WIF) is devised within the VehiCloud architecture, aiming to provide routing service for vehicular network, where each vehicle serves as a mobile service node and predicts its future locations by generating way point messages, which describe the trajectory of the vehicle's movement. A decision module in VehiCloud collects vehicles' way points and makes routing decisions for inter-vehicle communication. Selected paths of the routing are globally optimized in terms of message delivery ratio by respecting the constraints of end-to-end delay and communication cost. Our implementation of VehiCloud and real-road experiments demonstrate that it is practical and efficient to address fundamental routing problems for vehicular networks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProc. of the 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom-2012 - 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC-2012
Pages1438-1445
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom-2012 - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Duration: Jun 25 2012Jun 27 2012

Publication series

NameProc. of the 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom-2012 - 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC-2012

Other

Other11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom-2012
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLiverpool
Period6/25/126/27/12

Keywords

  • mobile cloud
  • routing
  • vehicular networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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