Towards Vehicular Fog Computing: an Architecture for Connected Vehicles and Vehicular Clouds

Abstract

Amazing progress of various inter-related technologies, such as communications, automatic control, and embedded systems has changed the traditional vehicle model pushing it forward towards new paradigms: Internet of Vehicles, Connected Vehicles, Vehicular Clouds/Fogs, Fog Computing, Smart Vehicles, Intelligent IoV etc. However, implementing such paradigms is very challenging due to their extreme complexity, which prevents them to be a more substantial part of our daily life, at the full potential of the technology involved. To tackle such complexity, new approaches are necessary and, therefore, we propose here a user-centric architecture of a smart connected vehicle that can be used also for smart surrounding environments and that provides for autonomic, pervasive, and fog computing. Its current implementation in a connected vehicle is also shown.