Design and Analysis of a Communication Protocol for Dynamic Vehicular Clouds in Smart Cities

The rise of Internet of Things (IoT) and adoption of smart cities create opportunities for creative and efficient management and utilization of the available resources. One of the characteristics of smart cities is the interconnectivity of the city's infrastructure, which allows data to be transferred between vehicles, infrastructures and road side units. Future vehicles with powerful on-board computers, communication capabilities, and vast sensor arrays are perfect candidates in this hyper-connected environment to utilize into a fluid Vehicular Cloud (VC) capable of performing large-scale computations. In this paper, we propose a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication protocol for enabling a dynamic Vehicular Cloud Computing system in smart cities.