Cooperative mobile edge computing system for VANET-based software-defined content delivery

Next-generation smart cities and Internet of Things (IoT) are getting more mature in terms of services and infrastructure requirements. Multiple smart vehicle applications are being conceived these days, including road traffic, road safety and infotainment, all of which are suffering from the WAN-la...

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Published in:Computers & electrical engineering 2018-10, Vol.71, p.388-397
Main Authors: Al-Badarneh, Jafar, Jararweh, Yaser, Al-Ayyoub, Mahmoud, Fontes, Ramon, Al-Smadi, Mohammad, Rothenberg, Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business competition
Caching
Content delivery service
Delivery services
Edge computing
Emulators
Infrastructure
Intelligent transportation systems
Intelligent vehicles
Internet of Things
Mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile computing
Mobile edge computing
Quality of service
Radio equipment
Software
Software defined systems
Traffic accidents & safety
Traffic safety
Vehicle-to-infrastructure
Vehicular Ad-hoc networks
Wide area networks
Wireless communications
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Summary:Next-generation smart cities and Internet of Things (IoT) are getting more mature in terms of services and infrastructure requirements. Multiple smart vehicle applications are being conceived these days, including road traffic, road safety and infotainment, all of which are suffering from the WAN-latency problem. In this paper, we propose a Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET)-based Software-Defined Edge Computing infrastructure supporting content delivery services among connected vehicles. The proposed approach leverages network base stations to embed mobile edge computing (MEC) services closer to the vehicles. Our approach can enable the delivery of more competitive services with reduced-latency by utilizing cooperative MEC search strategy for vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communications as well as utilizing vehicle-level caching for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications between peers. The framework prototype has been implemented as a clean extension of the Mininet-WiFi emulator. Preliminary results serve as validation of the proposed framework and point out the potential benefits of the approach in mitigating WAN-latency in VANET.
ISSN:0045-7906
1879-0755
DOI:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2018.07.021