A Collaborative Code Dissemination Schemes Through Two-Way Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Communications for Urban Computing

Urban computing creates novel solutions for smart city systems by integrating with ubiquitous sensing, cooperative communication, and data/code collection or dissemination technologies. In this paper, a collaborative code dissemination (CCD) approach with two-way vehicle to everything (V2X) paradigm is proposed by using vehicles act as code mules to disseminate code with fast and low cost style for urban Computing. The main innovation of the CCD-V2X scheme, which is different from the previous code dissemination method, is the use of three cooperative communication methods to speed up the dissemination of code. They are Roadside Smart Devices (RSDs) to vehicle (R2V), vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and R2V combined V2V (R2V-V2V) communications method. The corresponding three code dissemination schemes are proposed as follow: (1) The Code Dissemination with Roadside Smart Device Assisted (short as CDRSDA) scheme is proposed for vehicles to fast disseminate code in which the vehicles can receive code from RSDs that have get update code. (2) A Code Dissemination with V2V Transmission Assisted (short as CDVVA) scheme is proposed to improve the performance of code dissemination by enabling the transmission from code mules that have update code to the code mules that have no update code. (3) The R2V combined V2V (R2V-V2V) scheme is proposed which can further improve the performance by using both R2V and V2V communication method. The CCD scheme has been extensively experimentally verified by using real vehicle trajectory data. The experimental results show that: Compared with the Traditional Scheme, the CDRSDA scheme, CDVVA scheme, R2V-V2V scheme can be increased by up to 35.42%, 35.42%, 34.72%, respectively from the code diffusion coverage performance index, and from the speed performance indicators, the three schemes increased by at least 68.4%, 89.3% and 90.3%.