Keynote: Orchestrating Vehicular Computing Resources to Form Floating Virtual Edge Servers

Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. Emerging services for connected intelligent vehicles necessitate timely processing of vehicle-generated data. Realtime fusion of the data streams from vehicles across a city unlocks the potential of new applications that improve safety and comfort of driving. Although cloud computing offers flexible and scalable data processing services and thereby serves as a key enabler of these applications, a major challenge lies in communication overhead and latency to transfer data between vehicles and the remote servers. The concept of vehicle cloudification could be a promising solution to bridge the gap. The main idea is to form groups of connected vehicles over cellular and/or vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and use them as floating virtual edge servers (a.k.a. vehicular micro clouds). The vehicles in a vehicular micro cloud collaboratively perform data processing, communication and sensing tasks to complement the physical cloud and edge computing infrastructures. This keynote talk discusses the feasibility, fundamental building blocks and potential use cases of vehicular micro clouds.