Collision Avoidance Proposal in a MEC based VANET environment

Abstract

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a new network paradigm that allows resource management and IT services at the edge of a communication network and, so, closer to the devices guaranteeing low latency and high bandwidth requirements. This characteristic makes MEC paradigm suitable for critical communication services used in collaboration with container-based virtualization and with 5G networks. In this paper, an implementation of a collision avoidance system based on MEC in a VANET environment is proposed. This system makes use of cloud and edge computing and it is able to switch communication from edge to cloud server and vice versa when possible, trying to guarantee the required constraints and balancing the communication among the servers avoiding of overloading edge layer. The simulation results have proved how, in some cases, the MEC-5G combination is the best solution for avoiding collisions in a VANET environment.