Guest Editorial Special Issue on Vehicular Clouds

Cloud Computing, a catchy metaphor for utility computing, implemented through the provisioning of various types of hosted services over the Internet, has seen phenomenal growth and quasi-universal adoption in the past two decades. The underlying business model of cloud computing is the familiar &quo...

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Published inIEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 2637 - 2639
Main Authors Marinescu, Dan C., Olariu, Stephan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.06.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Business
Cloud computing
Computer networks
Distributed processing
Intelligent vehicles
Provisioning
Special issues and sections
Utility computing
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Summary:Cloud Computing, a catchy metaphor for utility computing, implemented through the provisioning of various types of hosted services over the Internet, has seen phenomenal growth and quasi-universal adoption in the past two decades. The underlying business model of cloud computing is the familiar "pay-as-you-go" model of metered services, where a user pays for whatever he/she uses and no more, and where additional demand for service can be met in real time. This powerful idea was suggested, at least in part, by the pervasive low-cost high-speed Internet, a good handle on virtualization, and advances in parallel and distributed computing. Three aspects are novel in conventional cloud computing: First, it gives users the illusion of infinite computing resources available to them on demand. Second, it eliminates the up-front financial commitment by cloud users, allowing them to increase hardware/software resources as needed. Third, it gives users the ability to pay for resources on a short-term basis and release them when they are no longer needed.
ISSN:1524-9050
1558-0016
DOI:10.1109/TITS.2020.2994359