Paper Info
Title
A platform for cloudification of network and applications in the Internet of Vehicles
Abstract
AbstractAbstractVehicular networks have evolved from traditional vehicle‐to‐vehicle (V2V) and vehicle‐to‐infrastructure (V2I) communications to the so‐called Internet of Vehicles (IoV), which encompasses cloud computing and the Internet of Things. Thus, IoV creates novel scenarios and applications such as autonomous driving, as well as research challenges regarding the requirements for connected cars such as ultra‐reliable low‐latency, communications and the need for high processing power closer to vehicles. In order to address the above issues for IoV, this article proposes integrating state‐of‐the‐art technology pillars that are well accepted by both industry and academia as building blocks for future 5G networks. We propose a flexible, hierarchical, and scalable IoV architecture that integrates software‐defined networking, edge/fog computing, network function virtualization, and containers. We evaluate the proposal in both infrastructure‐based and peer‐to‐peer content distribution scenarios. The results are promising and point out that the architecture can cope with the stringent requirements that need to be met in terms of latency for 5G‐based IoV applications.We propose and evaluate a flexible, hierarchical, and scalable application platform for 5G‐based Internet of Vehicles (IoV). We identify and define the interfaces and the tailored layer for each softwarization technology in order to manage, orchestrate, and balance the load for IoV apps using microservices at both NFV‐based MEC and fog layers. We propose a novel model of On‐Board Unit (OBU) based on Open vSwitch, which combines SDN routing and P2P content distribution. We replicate the cloud environment in a fully distributed IoV environment through lightweight templates. View Figure
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1002/ett.3961
Periodicals
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
31
5
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2161-3915
1
0.40
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francisco Edigleison da Silva Barbosa110.40
Francisco Ferreira de Mendonça Júnior210.73
Kelvin Dias3269.61