Title
Toward Efficient Content Delivery for Automated Driving Services: An Edge Computing Solution.
Abstract
Automated driving is coming with enormous potential for safer, more convenient, and more efficient transportation systems. Besides onboard sensing, autonomous vehicles can also access various cloud services such as high definition maps and dynamic path planning through cellular networks to precisely understand the real-time driving environments. However, these automated driving services, which have large content volume, are time-varying, location-dependent, and delay-constrained. Therefore, cellular networks will face the challenge of meeting this extreme performance demand. To cope with the challenge, by leveraging the emerging mobile edge computing technique, in this article, we first propose a two-level edge computing architecture for automated driving services in order to make full use of the intelligence at the wireless edge (i.e., base stations and autonomous vehicles) for coordinated content delivery. We then investigate the research challenges of wireless edge caching and vehicular content sharing. Finally, we propose potential solutions to these challenges and evaluate them using real and synthetic traces. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed solutions can significantly reduce the backhaul and wireless bottlenecks of cellular networks while ensuring the quality of automated driving services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/MNET.2018.1700105
IEEE Network
Keywords
Field
DocType
Servers,Autonomous vehicles,Cellular networks,Computer architecture,Wireless communication,Edge computing,Sensors
Edge computing,Base station,Wireless,Backhaul (telecommunications),Computer science,Server,Computer network,Mobile edge computing,Cellular network,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
1
0890-8044
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.55
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Quan Yuan15511.07
Zhou, H.216614.18
Jinglin Li315030.39
Zhihan Liu43810.06
Fangchun Yang5108290.49
Xuemin Shen615389928.67