Advancement in infotainment system in automotive sector with vehicular cloud network and current state of art (original) (raw)

A survey on vehicular cloud computing

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2013

Vehicular networking has become a significant research area due to its specific features and applications such as standardization, efficient traffic management, road safety and infotainment. Vehicles are expected to carry relatively more communication systems, on board computing facilities, storage and increased sensing power. Hence, several technologies have been deployed to maintain and promote Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Recently, a number of solutions were proposed to address the challenges and issues of vehicular networks. Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) is one of the solutions. VCC is a new hybrid technology that has a remarkable impact on traffic management and road safety by instantly using vehicular resources, such as computing, storage and internet for decision making. This paper presents the state-of-theart survey of vehicular cloud computing. Moreover, we present a taxonomy for vehicular cloud in which special attention has been devoted to the extensive applications, cloud formations, key management, inter cloud communication systems, and broad aspects of privacy and security issues. Through an extensive review of the literature, we design an architecture for VCC, itemize the properties required in vehicular cloud that support this model. We compare this mechanism with normal Cloud Computing (CC) and discuss open research issues and future directions. By reviewing and analyzing literature, we found that VCC is a technologically feasible and economically viable technological shifting paradigm for converging intelligent vehicular networks towards autonomous traffic, vehicle control and perception systems. Systems (ITS) (Al-Sultan et al. , 2013, Hartenstein and. The promise of vehicular networking has led to a fast convergence with ITS and to the advent of Intelligent Vehicular Networks , which are anticipated to transform driving styles by creating a secure, safe and healthy environment that will ultimately encompass our busy city streets and highways. Thus, the intelligent vehicular networks will provide infotainment and will enable a new versatile system that enhances transportation efficiency and safety . Although many efforts have been made to reach these objectives, VANET has several drawbacks, such as the high cost of the service constrained communications due to the high mobility of the vehicle .

Vehicular Cloud Computing: Trends and Challenges

Recently vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) has attracted the attention of research communities, leading car manufactures and governments due to its potential applications and specific characteristics. Their research outcome was started with awareness between vehicles for collision avoidance to internet access and then expanded to vehicular multimedia communications. Moreover, vehicle's high computation, communication and storage resources are set a ground for vehicular networks to deploy these applications in the near future. Nevertheless, onboard resources in vehicles are mostly underutilized. Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) is developed to utilize the VANET resources efficiently and hence provide subscribers safe and infotainment services. In this article, we perform a survey of state-of-the-art vehicular cloud computing as well as the existing techniques that utilizes cloud computing for performance improvements in VANET. We then classified the VCC based on the applications, services types and vehicular cloud organization. We present the detail for each VCC application and formation. Lastly, we discussed the open issues and research directions related to VANET cloud computing.

Novel Hybrid Architecture of Infotainment for Streaming Signals in Vehicular Network

2021

Infotainment system is meant for offering integrated services of information and entertainment to the driver to offer a better driving experience. However, the infotainment system's present state is more towards entertainment and less towards accessing real-time information propagation for avoiding the occurrences of road fatalities. In this regard, the streaming of multimedia signals would increase communication to enhance driving experiences. The infotainment system is one integral part of vehicular communication for road safety; however, it has received less attention. Existing approaches towards data transmission among vehicles are studied concerning three standard architectures. A hybrid approach is far better than the infrastructure-based and ad-hoc-based approaches. Still, there are open-end loopholes towards hybrid architectures where reliability in the data dissemination process in the presence of dynamic topology of vehicular nodes is not considered. Therefore, the pro...

Real Time Services for Cloud Computing Enabled Vehicle Networks

2013

Cloud computing technique is gaining more and more popularity recently. It can be applied to the vehicle applications to ensure real time performance as well as to improve accuracy and comfort degree for drivers. In this paper, we propose our novel vehicle cloud architecture which includes device level, communication level and service level. Each of these levels is explained in further detail with flow chart and taxonomy definition. Some innovative and real time vehicle cloud services are introduced to show the wide potential applications of vehicles and some discussion about research challenges, context classification is also provided.

A Survey on Network Technologies in Car-Infotainment Systems

International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education, 2017

In-car entertainment (ICE), or in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), is a collection of hardware and software in automobiles that provides audio or video entertainment. The infotainment sector in cars has developed rapidly within the last few years. Where an AM/FM tuner was initially sufficient, many vehicles are now equipped with high-grade sound and navigation systems. This also increases the number of devices involved – radio, cell phone, CD changer, navigation system, voice operation and an additional multi-channel amplifier supplement the primary systems. These devices must interact in concert with each other and can only be controlled via a central operating surface to ensure drivers are not unnecessarily distracted. This paper presents a comprensive overview of network architecture used in car-infotainment.

Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC)

2018

During the last decade, Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) research area has been a prime focus for the researchers and developers owing to its important applications, including efficient traffic management, road safety, and entertainment. Vehicles are increasingly equipped with extensive resources in terms of computing power, data storage, and sensing capabilities and these resources are typically underutilized, due to the constrained service and resource management models. With the emergence of highly developed vehicular applications, the issues such as low latency, security, quality of service and uninterrupted services have also been increasing which demands for the powerful communication and computation facilities. To satisfy the requirements of VANETs, Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) has come up as a solution. The research community needs to take these issues into consideration and they should be solved for the continuance of the development in this area. Vehicular Cloud Computi...

Unraveling Edge-based in-vehicle infotainment using the Smart Highway testbed

2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2021

With the advancements in SDN and NFV, both applications and network functions can be redesigned , and deployed at more appropriate locations. Thanks to the MEC platforms, cloud-alike service deployments are offered to the users/vehicles at closer proximity. However, MEC deployments are usually i) constrained in resources, ii) contain heterogeneous and distributed network and computing resources, and iii) cover narrower region that constrains service continuity due to the high mobility of vehicles. Thus, in this paper, we present our approach on collocating MEC platforms with roadside infrastructure (i.e., RSUs) in order to improve the QoS of infotainment services for vehicles on the smart highway. We tackle both challenges presented above by deploying MEC platforms along the highway, thereby having distributed control over each MEC host in the form of Kubernetes master nodes, and one powerful and yet centralized orchestrator in the cloud. Our approach is one of the earliest attempts to collocate MEC with the RSU, and to test the benefits of the smart application placement in a realistic vehicular environment.

ADAPTATION OF CLOUD THEORY IN THE INFOCOMMUNICATION SYSTEM OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

2020

Transport infrastructures are part of the global transport architecture. The operation of each nation's transport infrastructure is essential for the sustainability of national economies. Therefore, these systems are considered as critical infrastructures from the perspective of national security. It is understandable that smart mobility is one of the indicators of the smart city concept. An important element of the transportation system is the IT infrastructure, which is connected to the local systems of smart cities. In the system of a smart city the central management subsystem is the server component and the moving objects are the client devices. Autonomous vehicles can obtain the information they need for transport from their on-board equipment, from the central control of the smart city or from each other. The most important requirement of the autonomous vehicle's own system is high availability with adequate performance. For this reason, it is worth examining the applicability of availability-enhancing technologies in these vehicles. This article examines the adaptations of the cloud system requirements and cloud building technologies in the infocommunication system of autonomous vehicles.

Information-Centric Mobile Edge Computing for Connected Vehicle Environments

Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications, 2017

Connected vehicle systems form the basis for future features of functions and applications within the automotive domain. In order to allow resource intensive services, cloud offloading and especially Mobile Edge Computing is a promising approach. In this paper, we present a detailed futuristic vehicular scenario-Electronic Horizon-and list the challenges. We argue that the resulting challenges are representative of many of the envisioned use-cases of Mobile Edge Computing. We then present how Information-Centric Networking in combination with Mobile Edge Computing has the potential to support such a futuristic scenario. Finally, we present research directions that could enhance the solution space.