Vehicle Resource Leasing via Peer-to-Peer Compute Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern vehicles often have underutilized computing, storage, and networking resources that are not efficiently shared or utilized across different vehicles and entities, leading to inefficiencies and underutilization of available resources.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a vehicle agent that enables resource sharing through a distributed control plane using application programmatic interfaces (APIs) for vehicles, roadside resources, and external electronic devices, allowing vehicles to request, negotiate, and lease resources from each other via direct peer-to-peer communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vehicles are equipped with sufficient computing capacity, storage capacity, and networking capacity to perform tasks in various circumstances, then the vehicle's capability to perform tasks is improved, but the resources remain unutilized during normal operation or when the vehicle is parked
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a resource sharing system where vehicle resources (computing, storage, networking) serve dual purposes: they perform tasks for the host vehicle when needed, and are shared with other vehicles or entities when idle. The resource manager enables the same physical resources to be dynamically allocated between local use and external sharing, making the resources universal rather than dedicated to a single function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables idle resources to automatically serve other vehicles through the resource sharing mechanism. When a vehicle's resources are not being used for its own tasks, the resource manager automatically makes them available to external requests without requiring continuous active management or intervention, allowing resources to serve themselves productively during idle periods.
2Loss of energy
If a vehicle shares its resources with other vehicles or entities, then resource utilization is improved, but the system complexity increases due to distributed control plane and peer-to-peer communications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a resource manager as an intermediary component that mediates between the vehicle's local tasks and external resource sharing requests. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of distributed resource management, handling negotiations, allocations, and communications between the host vehicle and external entities, thereby shielding other system components from the inherent complexity of peer-to-peer resource sharing.
Solution Approach 2:
The resource sharing system is segmented into distinct functional components: a resource manager for coordination, a distributed control plane for negotiation, and peer-to-peer communication channels for direct resource access. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific aspects of resource sharing independently, reducing overall system complexity by dividing the challenging problem into manageable, specialized modules.
3Quantity of substance
If vehicles establish direct peer-to-peer communications for resource sharing, then resource availability is improved, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring resource availability and negotiation status increases
Solution Approach 1:
The distributed control plane implements feedback mechanisms where vehicles continuously exchange information about their resource availability status, negotiation progress, and allocation states. This feedback enables the resource manager to detect and measure the current state of resource sharing, track negotiations in real-time, and adjust allocations dynamically based on changing conditions, thereby reducing the difficulty of monitoring complex peer-to-peer resource interactions.
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AI summary
A vehicle resource management system provides vehicles with vehicle agents that enable sharing of resources, via peer-to-peer connections between vehicles or other resource providers and resource consumers. For example, a first vehicle may be allocated computing capacity, storage capacity, or networking capacity of a second vehicle for use by the first vehicle over an ephemeral connection between the vehicles. The first vehicle may broadcast a request for leased resources to a plurality of potential resource providers and may select a given resource provider based on attributes of the task to be performed, policies of the vehicle, and information indicated in responses received in response to the broadcast. Upon acceptance a cryptographic handshake may be performed to establish an ephemeral connection between the vehicle and resource provider to enable sharing of resources over a direct peer-to-peer connection.