Virtualization in VANETs to Support the Vehicular Cloud – Experiments with the Network as a Service model

BibTex:
Research areas:	Uncategorized	Year:	2014
Type of Publication:	In Proceedings	Keywords:	Vehicular ad-hoc networks; virtualization; vehicular cloud computing; Network as a Service
Authors:	17, 8 15

Book title:	3rd International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT)

Address:	Luton, UK
Month:	August


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Abstract:	The vision of \emph{vehicular cloud computing} (VCC) is to harness the wealthy resources contributed by groups of vehicles to enable innovative information services related to road safety, traffic management, environmental monitoring, personal communications and infotainment. Thus far, the scenarios envisaged for this paradigm are limited by the challenges derived from the mobility of the vehicles, to the point that most of the proposals in the literature have merely dealt with vehicles in parking lots, stuck in traffic jams or moving as a flock for a long time. In this paper, we present an approach to overcome those limitations by engaging the vehicles in collaboration to emulate an infrastructure of stationary virtual nodes, which can be made responsible for computing, sensing, storage and communication tasks. We present the architecture and the main procedures of the proposal, along with the results of simulations of the VCC service model known as Network as a Service (NaaS).

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