VCPS: Vehicular Cyber-physical Systems for Smart Road Services

Abstract

This paper proposes the design of Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems (called VCPS) for smart road services in vehicular networks. Our VCPS realizes mobile cloud computing services where vehicles themselves or mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets of drivers or passengers in vehicles) play a role of both cloud server and cloud client. First, this paper describes the architecture of vehicular networks for VCPS and the delay modeling for the interactive navigation and accident prediction, such as a mobile node's travel delay along its navigation path in vehicular networks. Second, the paper explains two VCPS applications as smart road services through the vehicular cloud, such as (i) interactive navigation service for the efficient driving and (ii) pedestrian protection service against road accidents.