A Framework for Implementing Mobile Cloud Services in VANETs

Author

Mershad, Khaleel ; Artail, Hassan

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., American Univ. of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

fYear

2013

fDate

June 28 2013-July 3 2013

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

90

Abstract

The strong potentials that exist in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) has given birth to the concept of Vehicular Clouds, in which cloud computing services are hosted by vehicles that have sufficient resources to act as mobile cloud servers. In this paper, we propose a protocol that enables vehicles to search for mobile cloud servers that are moving nearby and discover their services and resources. The design depends on roadside units (RSUs) that act as cloud directories with which mobile cloud servers register. We evaluate the performance of our protocol using ns2 and explain through comparing the results to another scheme the feasibility and efficiency of our protocol in terms of service discovery and service consuming delays and packet success ratio.

Keywords

access protocols; cloud computing; delays; vehicular ad hoc networks; RSU; VANET; cloud computing services; cloud directories; delays; mobile cloud services; ns2 protocol; packet success ratio; roadside units; service discovery; vehicular ad hoc networks; vehicular clouds; Artificial intelligence; Cloud computing; Delays; Mobile communication; Servers; Vehicles; Cloud Computing; Cloud services; VANETs; Vehicular Clouds; roadside units; service discovery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-5028-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLOUD.2013.15

Filename

6676681