Engaging Vehicles in Cloud Computing

* 在车辆中包括复杂的计算设备、众多传感器、地理定位工具和无线功能，主要是为了解决交通问题，如车辆安全和公路拥堵。然而，这些能力构成了一个现象级的无处不在的平台，它是移动的，可以感知、计算、存储数据和通信，几乎不需要额外的基础设施部署成本。事实上，车辆可以被视为移动的微型数据中心，可以为用户或服务提供商提供服务。相反，随着云计算的出现，车辆可以通过利用云中可用的弹性资源来满足乘客的智能功能，而不仅仅是嵌入在车载系统中的功能，从而从按需服务中受益。该研究计划的目标是设计新的架构，工具和算法，以实现车载云计算的概念。三名博士和三名硕士学生将接受本研究计划的培训。他们将获得通信网络，车辆网络和新的无线通信技术和协议的先进知识。学生开发的技能将随着车载连接服务和应用程序的日益普及而受到高度需求。

***The inclusion of sophisticated computing devices, numerous sensors, geo-localization tools, and wireless capabilities in vehicles, has largely been targeted towards addressing transportation issues such as vehicle safety and highway congestion. These capabilities constitute, however, a phenomenal ubiquitous platform which is mobile, can sense, compute, store data and communicate at virtually no extra infrastructure deployment cost. In fact, vehicles could be seen as mobile micro-data centers which can provide services to users or service providers. Conversely, with the advent of cloud computing, vehicles could benefit from services on-demand, by leveraging elastic resources available in the cloud to cater smart functionality for passengers, beyond those embedded in their on-board systems.***The objective of this research program is to design new architectures, tools, and algorithms to enable the concept of vehicular cloud computing.***Three PhD and three MSc students will receive training in this research program. They will acquire advanced knowledge in communication networks, vehicular networking, and new wireless communication techniques and protocols. The skills developed by the students will be in high demand with the growing popularity of on-board connected services and applications.