From Autonomous Vehicles to Vehicular Clouds: Challenges of Management, Security and Dependability
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to enhance road safety, reduce traffic pressure and improve the driving experience. With the on board sensors, compute units, storage devices, and communication modules, autonomous vehicles are becoming integrated information systems. Compared to conventional centralized approaches and traditional clouds, the emerging vehicular clouds (v clouds) technology is a more promising solution for utilizing such rich resources. In v clouds, vehicles can communicate with one another, form self organized vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) collect real time sensing data, conduct intensive computation, and disseminate information. However, the highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature of autonomous vehicles raises many issues when designing v cloud systems. In this paper, we focus on the challenges in designing v cloud computing architectures, providing effective routing protocols, securing v cloud environments and enhancing the dependability of v clouds. We review the state of the art and discuss open research issues.
2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)