Intent-Based Management for Software-Defined Vehicles in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) is a new player towards autonomous vehicles in smart road networks. An SDV is constructed by a software platform like a cloud-native system like Kubernetes and has its internal network. To facilitate the easy and efficient configuration of networks in the SDV, an intent-based management is an appropriate direction. In this paper, we introduce a framework of intent-based management for networks and applications in SDVs so that they can communicate with other SDVs and infrastructure nodes for safe driving and infotainment services in the road networks. The proposed framework can also be extended to configure security policies for SDVs. We show a preliminary implementation of the proposed framework and suggest several research issues and challenges when designing such a framework.