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Mobile Edge Computing versus Fog Computing in Internet of Vehicles

Authors:
Eugen Borcoci
Marius-Constantin Vochin
Serban Obreja

Keywords: Internet of Vehicles; Vehicular Networks; Fog computing; Edge computing; Software Defined Networking; Network Function Virtualization

Abstract:
Vehicular networks and the recent Internet of Vehicles (IoV) are continuously developing, aiming to solve the current and novel challenging needs in the domain of transportation systems. Edge computing offers a natural support for Internet of Vehicles, supporting fast response, context awareness, and minimization of the data transfer to the centralized data centers - all these being allowed by the edge computing availability close to mobile vehicles. Multi-access (Mobile) Edge Computing, fog computing, cloudlets, etc., are such candidates to support IoV; their architectures and technologies have overlapping characteristics but also differences in approach. A full convergence between them has not yet been achieved. Also, it is still not completely clarified which solution could be the best trade-off to be adopted in the Internet of vehicles context and for which use cases. This paper is not a complete survey, but attempts a preliminary evaluation of some of the currently proposed Mobile Edge Computing and fog computing solutions for vehicular networks.

Pages: 8 to 15

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: September 16, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4340

ISBN: 978-1-61208-662-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from September 16, 2018 to September 20, 2018