Marco Wagner

Information-Centric Mobile Edge Computing for Connected Vehicle Environments: Challenges and Research Directions

Connected vehicle systems form the basis for future features of functions and applications within the automotive domain. In order to allow resource intensive services, cloud offloading and especially Mobile Edge Computing is a promising approach. In this paper, we present a detailed futuristic vehicular scenario -- Electronic Horizon -- and list the challenges. We argue that the resulting challenges are representative of many of the envisioned use-cases of Mobile Edge Computing. We then present how Information-Centric Networking in combination with Mobile Edge Computing has the potential to support such a futuristic scenario. Finally, we present research directions that could enhance the solution space.

Introducing a harmonized and generic cross-platform interface between a Vehicle and the Cloud

Vehicle-to-Cloud connectivity is opening up a vehicles internal data and function portfolio to the outside world. This sets up new chances by being able to create new customer services that enable new business models and opportunities. However, current approaches for Vehicle-to-Cloud connectivity tend to build technological silos by being restricted to a single manufacturer or model, a single functionality or to the automotive domain which excludes seamless connectivity to other domains such as IoT or IT. Hence, a harmonized and generic cross-platform interface, a so called Vehicle Abstraction Layer, between the vehicle and the cloud has to be developed. A key issue within this task is the design of an abstract description of data and functionality provided by a vehicle. Such a description allows to automatically generate code in order to bind any vehicle being described to a cloud system. This paper introduces such an abstract description by using Eclipse Vorto, an open source device description framework. It also presents the technology used as well as a description scheme. Furthermore, the approach is illustrated by an example scenario.

PeRCeIVE: Proactive caching in ICN-based VANETs

The networking of components, machines and everyday objects is progressing rapidly. This development also affects the automotive industry. Vehicle systems are getting connected with other cars, infrastructure components or cloud servers. This raises the question if the current host-centric communication model of todays networks is ready for networking billions of new devices. The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm is a promising candidate to solve the issues set by connected vehicles and host-centric communication, for example by providing in-network caching capabilities. However, placing the right content at the right node in-time is a non trivial task. Within this paper, we introduce PeRCeIVE, a PRoactive Caching approach for Icn-based Vehicular ad-hoc nEtworks (VANETs). PeRCeIVE shows that a directed placement of data will improve the performance of the network by distributing the content with a minimal number of replicas one-hop away from the consumer.

ICN-based open, distributed data market place for connected vehicles: Challenges and research directions

Currently, the networking of everyday objects, socalled Internet of Things (IoT), such as vehicles and home automation environments is progressing rapidly. Formerly deployed as domain-specific solutions, the development is continuing to link different domains together to form a large heterogeneous IoT ecosystem. This development raises challenges in different fields such as scalability of billions of devices, interoperability across different IoT domains and the need of mobility support. The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm is a promising candidate to form a unified platform to connect different IoT domains together including infrastructure, wireless, and ad-hoc environments. This paper describes a vision of a harmonized architectural design providing dynamic access of data and services based on an ICN. Within the context of connected vehicles, the paper introduces requirements and challenges of the vision and contributes in open research directions in Information-Centric Networking.

Integrating Vehicular Data into Smart Home IoT Systems Using Eclipse Vorto

The emerging trend of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables new applications and aims to interconnect and integrate existing domains such as smart home or automotive. While enabling new applications, this also creates new challenges. Many of these challenges have their roots in interoperability issues between different interfaces within these domains and between one another. In this paper an approach to deal with these issues is presented. It makes use of the device description framework Eclipse Vorto. Using Vortos capabilities to generally describe devices and interfaces and generating code, a proof of concept has been implemented where a smart home platform is connected to an electric vehicle in order to integrate the vehicle as part of a smart home platform. The paper discusses the challenges, introduces the proposed concept and gives some details on the implementation of the exemplary use case.

Service-Oriented Communication for Controller Area Networks

The appearance of high-performance connectivity (e.g. Automotive Ethernet, C2X Communication) will enable seamless integration of cloud-based services into the vehicles Electric/Electronic (E/E) architecture. This new development poses several challenges regarding in-vehicle communication such as the need for runtime adaptive communication or the establishment of continuous connectivity between functionality hosted in the cloud and on deeply embedded Electronic Control Units (ECUs). These upcoming challenges can be tackled by the introduction of Service-Oriented Communication (SOC) protocols into the vehicles communication system. For Ethernet a first standard has been defined with AUTOSARs SOME/IP. However, todays most used automotive communication bus is still the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. This paper introduces a concept and a first implementation of a service-oriented communication protocol for CAN.