Equinox: A Road-Side Edge Computing Experimental Platform for CAVs

The great success of artificial intelligence and edge computing technology has largely promote the development of connected and autonomous driving. However, owing to the missing of the experiment platform for Road-Side Unit (RSU), majority of research works are either simulation based task offloading or commercial equipment's based scheduling design. The fundamental challenge of how to co-design the communication and computation in a practical system is not tackled. In this paper, we proposed Equinox, which is our design of the rode-side edge computing experimental platform for connected and autonomous vehicles. With communication, data, as well as the computation taken into consideration, Equinox provides stable and sufficient communication based on a combination of WiFi, LTE, and DSRC. Also, Equinox guarantees reliable and flexible data collection, data storage, and efficient data processing.