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A platform for cloudification of network and applications in the Internet of Vehicles
Author(s) -
da Silva Barbosa Francisco Edigleison,
Mendonça Júnior Francisco Ferreira,
Dias Kelvin Lopes
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.3961
Subject(s) - computer science , scalability , cloud computing , software defined networking , architecture , the internet , virtualization , computer network , distributed computing , edge computing , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , low latency (capital markets) , latency (audio) , telecommunications , world wide web , operating system , art , visual arts
Vehicular 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.