Microservice-Based Vehicular Network for Seamless and Ultra-Reliable Communications of Connected Vehicles

IF 2.8 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Future Internet Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI:10.3390/fi16070257

Mira M. Zarie, A. Ateya, Mohammed S. Sayed, Mohammed ElAffendi, M. M. Abdellatif

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The fifth-generation (5G) cellular infrastructure is expected to bring about the widespread use of connected vehicles. This technological progress marks the beginning of a new era in vehicular networks, which includes a range of different types and services of self-driving cars and the smooth sharing of information between vehicles. Connected vehicles have also been announced as a main use case of the sixth-generation (6G) cellular, with ultimate requirements beyond the 5G (B5G) and 6G eras. These networks require full coverage, extremely high reliability and availability, very low latency, and significant system adaptability. The significant specifications set for vehicular networks pose considerable design and development challenges. The goals of establishing a latency of 1 millisecond, effectively handling large amounts of data traffic, and facilitating high-speed mobility are of utmost importance. To address these difficulties and meet the demands of upcoming networks, e.g., 6G, it is necessary to improve the performance of vehicle networks by incorporating innovative technology into existing network structures. This work presents significant enhancements to vehicular networks to fulfill the demanding specifications by utilizing state-of-the-art technologies, including distributed edge computing, e.g., mobile edge computing (MEC) and fog computing, software-defined networking (SDN), and microservice. The work provides a novel vehicular network structure based on micro-services architecture that meets the requirements of 6G networks. The required offloading scheme is introduced, and a handover algorithm is presented to provide seamless communication over the network. Moreover, a migration scheme for migrating data between edge servers was developed. The work was evaluated in terms of latency, availability, and reliability. The results outperformed existing traditional approaches, demonstrating the potential of our approach to meet the demanding requirements of next-generation vehicular networks.

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基于微服务的车载网络，实现互联车辆的无缝和超可靠通信

第五代（5G）蜂窝基础设施有望带来联网汽车的广泛应用。这一技术进步标志着车辆网络新时代的开始，其中包括一系列不同类型的自动驾驶汽车和服务，以及车辆之间信息的顺畅共享。车联网还被宣布为第六代（6G）蜂窝网络的主要用例，其最终要求将超越 5G (B5G) 和 6G 时代。这些网络需要全面覆盖、极高的可靠性和可用性、极低的延迟和强大的系统适应性。为车载网络设定的重要规格给设计和开发带来了相当大的挑战。建立 1 毫秒的延迟、有效处理大量数据流量和促进高速移动是最重要的目标。为了解决这些难题并满足即将到来的网络（如 6G）的需求，有必要通过将创新技术融入现有网络结构来提高车辆网络的性能。本研究利用最先进的技术，包括分布式边缘计算（如移动边缘计算（MEC）和雾计算）、软件定义网络（SDN）和微服务，对车辆网络进行了重大改进，以满足苛刻的规范要求。该研究提供了一种基于微服务架构的新型车载网络结构，可满足 6G 网络的要求。介绍了所需的卸载方案，并提出了一种移交算法，以提供网络上的无缝通信。此外，还开发了在边缘服务器之间迁移数据的迁移方案。这项工作在延迟、可用性和可靠性方面进行了评估。评估结果优于现有的传统方法，表明我们的方法有潜力满足下一代车载网络的苛刻要求。

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来源期刊

Future Internet Computer Science-Computer Networks and Communications

CiteScore

7.10

自引率

5.90%

发文量

303

审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： Future Internet is a scholarly open access journal which provides an advanced forum for science and research concerned with evolution of Internet technologies and related smart systems for “Net-Living” development. The general reference subject is therefore the evolution towards the future internet ecosystem, which is feeding a continuous, intensive, artificial transformation of the lived environment, for a widespread and significant improvement of well-being in all spheres of human life (private, public, professional). Included topics are: • advanced communications network infrastructures • evolution of internet basic services • internet of things • netted peripheral sensors • industrial internet • centralized and distributed data centers • embedded computing • cloud computing • software defined network functions and network virtualization • cloud-let and fog-computing • big data, open data and analytical tools • cyber-physical systems • network and distributed operating systems • web services • semantic structures and related software tools • artificial and augmented intelligence • augmented reality • system interoperability and flexible service composition • smart mission-critical system architectures • smart terminals and applications • pro-sumer tools for application design and development • cyber security compliance • privacy compliance • reliability compliance • dependability compliance • accountability compliance • trust compliance • technical quality of basic services.