A RSU-Aided Resource Search and Cloud Construction Mechanism in VANETs

• Published in: 정보처리학회논문지. 컴퓨터 및 통신시스템, 9(3) pp. 67 - 76
• Main Authors: 이윤형, 이의신
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 한국정보처리학회 01.03.2020
• Subjects: 컴퓨터학
• ISSN: 2287-5891; 2734-049X
• DOI: 10.3745/KTCCS.2020.9.3.67

With the fast development in wireless communications and vehicular technologies, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have enabled to deliver data between vehicles. Recently, VANETs introduce a Vehicular Cloud (VC) model for collaborating to share and use resources of vehicles to create value-added services. To construct a VC, a vehicle should search vehicles that intend to provide their own resource. The single-hop search cannot search enough provider vehicles due to a small coverage and non-line-of-sights of communications. On the other hand, the multi-hop search causes very high traffics for large coverage searching and frequent connection breakages. Recently, many Roadside Units (RSUs) have been deployed on roads to collect the information of vehicles in their own coverages and to connect them to Internet. Thus, we propose a RSU-aided vehicular resource search and cloud construction mechanism in VANETS. In the proposed mechanism, a RSU collects the information of location and mobility of vehicles and selects provider vehicles enabled to provide resources needed for constructing a VC of a requester vehicle based on the collected information. In the proposed mechanism, the criteria for determining provider vehicles to provide resources are the connection duration between each candidate vehicle and the requester vehicle, the resource size of each candidate vehicle, and its connection starting time to the requester vehicle. Simulation results verify that the proposed mechanism achieves better performance than the existing mechanism. KCI Citation Count: 0