Characterizing the role of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic management
Vehicular cloud computing is envisioned to deliver services that provide traffic safety and efficiency to vehicles. Vehicular cloud computing has great potential to change the contemporary vehicular communication paradigm. Explicitly, the underutilized resources of vehicles can be shared with other...
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| author | Iftikhar Ahmad Rafidah Md Noor Ihsan Ali Muhammad Imran Athanasios Vasilakos |
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| description | Vehicular cloud computing is envisioned to deliver services that provide traffic safety and efficiency to vehicles. Vehicular cloud computing has great potential to change the contemporary vehicular communication paradigm. Explicitly, the underutilized resources of vehicles can be shared with other vehicles to manage traffic during congestion. These resources include but are not limited to storage, computing power, and Internet connectivity. This study reviews current traffic management systems to analyze the role and significance of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic management. First, an abstraction of the vehicular cloud infrastructure in an urban scenario is presented to explore the vehicular cloud computing process. A taxonomy of vehicular clouds that defines the cloud formation, integration types, and services is presented. A taxonomy of vehicular cloud services is also provided to explore the object types involved and their positions within the vehicular cloud. A comparison of the current state-of-the-art traffic management systems is performed in terms of parameters, such as vehicular ad hoc network infrastructure, Internet dependency, cloud management, scalability, traffic flow control, and emerging services. Potential future challenges and emerging technologies, such as the Internet of vehicles and its incorporation in traffic congestion control, are also discussed. Vehicular cloud computing is envisioned to have a substantial role in the development of smart traffic management solutions and in emerging Internet of vehicles. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-17c73fbe8d4f4fd98ac8747266c501062025-02-03T05:44:35ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772017-05-011310.1177/1550147717708728Characterizing the role of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic managementIftikhar Ahmad0Rafidah Md Noor1Ihsan Ali2Muhammad Imran3Athanasios Vasilakos4 Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, SwedenVehicular cloud computing is envisioned to deliver services that provide traffic safety and efficiency to vehicles. Vehicular cloud computing has great potential to change the contemporary vehicular communication paradigm. Explicitly, the underutilized resources of vehicles can be shared with other vehicles to manage traffic during congestion. These resources include but are not limited to storage, computing power, and Internet connectivity. This study reviews current traffic management systems to analyze the role and significance of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic management. First, an abstraction of the vehicular cloud infrastructure in an urban scenario is presented to explore the vehicular cloud computing process. A taxonomy of vehicular clouds that defines the cloud formation, integration types, and services is presented. A taxonomy of vehicular cloud services is also provided to explore the object types involved and their positions within the vehicular cloud. A comparison of the current state-of-the-art traffic management systems is performed in terms of parameters, such as vehicular ad hoc network infrastructure, Internet dependency, cloud management, scalability, traffic flow control, and emerging services. Potential future challenges and emerging technologies, such as the Internet of vehicles and its incorporation in traffic congestion control, are also discussed. Vehicular cloud computing is envisioned to have a substantial role in the development of smart traffic management solutions and in emerging Internet of vehicles.https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147717708728 |
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| title | Characterizing the role of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic
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| title_full | Characterizing the role of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic
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| title_short | Characterizing the role of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic
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