Vehicular cloud computing : trends and challenges

Abstract EN

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, on- board 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 improvement 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.