Vehicular Data Cloud Platform with 5G Support: Architecture, Services, and Challenges

摘要

Facilitated by the emerging technologies of cloud computing, vehicular cloud computing (VCC) is being expected to be a new paradigm to create a new situation for vehicular data services. However, with the increasing popularity of vehicular cloud services, accessing vehicular terminals and produced mobile data are experiencing tremendous growth, therefore, how to provide enough capacity for all access requirements and handle all the mobile data traffic to address the challenges posed by richer vehicular applications are critical. In future 5G mobile networks, promoted by the advantages of supporting various connectivity and significantly faster transmission performance of 5G communications, VCC will be enabled to provide more realistic vehicular data cloud services. In this article, an innovative VCC platform with the support of 5G communications for providing effective vehicular data cloud services is first proposed. Then, in this context, a vehicular social-based taxi-sharing cloud service is mainly investigated. Finally, some open issues and challenges with possible solutions for future work are discussed.