Remote Vehicular Micro Cloud Formation via Server Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicular micro cloud systems are limited to forming at geographic areas where the micro cloud leader is located, restricting the formation of vehicular micro clouds at remote locations, which hinders on-demand collaboration and data sharing among vehicles and roadside equipment.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for remote vehicular micro cloud formation, where a client device can request the formation of a vehicular micro cloud at a geographic location separate from its own, enabling communication with vehicles and roadside units to collect and share resource data, such as sensor detection results, to execute tasks like locating unconnected vehicles or measuring parking availability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vehicular micro clouds are formed only at the geographic location of the micro cloud leader, then the system structure is simple and easy to manage, but the adaptability and versatility are reduced because remote location collaboration is hindered
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between the client device and vehicles at remote geographic locations. The server receives formation requests from remote clients, identifies suitable vehicles at target locations, and coordinates micro cloud formation without requiring the client to be physically present. This mediator approach enables remote micro cloud formation while managing system complexity centrally.
Solution Approach 2:
The system separates micro cloud formation into distinct functional modules: client device for initiating requests, server for coordinating formation and managing communications, and vehicles for executing tasks. This segmentation allows remote formation by distributing functions across different components, reducing the complexity burden on any single element while enabling geographic separation.
2Ease of operation
If the client device is remote from the geographic location, then the flexibility and ease of operation are improved, but the communication reliability and coordination difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as a reliable communication intermediary, establishing and maintaining connection channels between the remote client device and vehicles at the target location. All communications pass through this trusted mediator, ensuring message delivery and coordination reliability even when the client is geographically distant from the micro cloud formation location.
3Productivity
If multiple vehicles at remote locations are coordinated to form a micro cloud, then the productivity and data sharing capability are enhanced, but the device complexity and coordination overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the coordination function into a centralized server that manages multiple vehicles simultaneously. Instead of each vehicle independently coordinating with others (which would create exponential complexity), the server consolidates coordination tasks, managing resource sharing and task distribution across all participating vehicles in a unified manner, thereby enhancing productivity while controlling complexity.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for forming remote vehicular micro clouds at one or more remote locations. According to some embodiments, the methods and systems comprise responsive to receiving a request to form a vehicular micro cloud from a client device, communicating with a plurality of vehicles within an area of a geographic location to collectively form a vehicular micro cloud at the geographic location, where client device is remote from the area of the geographic location. The methods and systems further include receiving resource data from the plurality of vehicles, the resource data comprising detection results of an environment surrounding the geographic location based on sensor sets of the plurality of vehicles, and transmitting the resource data to the client device.