Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Fog/Edge Computing for Autonomous and Connected Cars

The seven papers in this special section focuses on fog computing for autonomous and connected automobiles. With advances in wireless communications, machine learning, and sensing technologies, autonomous and connected cars are becoming a reality. Many potential applications (e.g., augmented reality for information providing through a heads-up display and accident avoidance in autopilot) require significant computing power to process data generated by vehicle sensors for near-real-time responses. Upgrading on-board computers is one option at relatively high cost. Another solution is cloud computing, where the traditional centralized approach suffers from long latency and unstable connections in a vehicular environment and may congest network backhaul with a large amount of data.