Design and Implementation of an Automotive Telematics Gateway Based on Virtualization

Abstract

The automotive telematics gateway is an important part of modern high-end cars providing various safety and convenience services for the vehicle owner. We have developed a software platform for automotive gateway based on virtualization technology. It runs two guest OSes concurrently on the same processor: one connected to in-vehicle embedded networks for running hard real-time applications, and the other connected to the outside internet for running soft or non-real-time applications. Several representative applications have been implemented on this platform, including car taillight switch, virtual instrumentation panel, task migration in the pervasive computing environment, multimedia migration based on NFC, etc.