Mahmoud Abuelela
ABSTRACT
The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in vehicular networking and its myriad potential applications. The initial view of practitioners and researchers was that radio-equipped vehicles could keep the drivers informed about potential safety risks and increase their awareness of road conditions. The view then expanded to include access to the Internet and associated services. More recently, the availability of bandwidth has seen vehicular peer-to-peer networking and multimedia content delivery.
This paper puts forth a novel vision, namely that advances in vehicular networks, embedded devices, and cloud computing can be used to form what we may call Vehicular Cloud Computing, VC2 for short. In VC2, the underutilized vehicles resources such as computing power, Internet connectivity and storage can be shared between drivers or rented over the Internet to various customers, very much like usual cloud resources are.
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Index Terms
- Taking VANET to the clouds
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