Roadside Unit Allocation for Fog-based Information Sharing in Vehicular Networks

Elmer R. Magsino, Ivan Wang Hei Ho

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Abstract

As more intelligent vehicles will ply the roads in the near future, a rapid increase of sensed environment data is anticipated. Information based on these acquired data needs to be extracted and shared in the most efficient way. To realize this, roadside units (RSUs) acting as hotspots and fog computing nodes should work together with vehicles in vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems. In this paper, we consider a set of intersections in the city of Beijing as potential locations for strategically allocating fog computing hotspots to maximize the information shared among vehicles and fog nodes. Using empirical findings from mobility traces such as vehicular density, total daily number of transmissions, transmitted data size, and space mean speed, we propose the Information Sharing via Roadside unit Allocation (ISRA) strategy to determine the optimal locations for these fog computing hotspots. Simulation results show that for a given deployment limit, ISRA, when compared to three other conventional deployment schemes, is able to share on average 6%, 10% and 47% more road information with fewer packet transmissions (energy efficiency of 83%) in the vehicular network. In addition, ISRA is able to balance the information load among adjacent RSU fog nodes for better resource management.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCitiFog 2018 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Smart Cities and Fog Computing, Part of SenSys 2018
EditorsBhaskar Krishnamachari, Gowri Sankar Ramachandran
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages7-12
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450360517
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Nov 2018
Event1st ACM International Workshop on Smart Cities and Fog Computing, CitiFog 2018, co-located with ACM SenSys 2018 and BuildSys 2018 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 4 Nov 2018 → …

Publication series

NameCitiFog 2018 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Smart Cities and Fog Computing, Part of SenSys 2018

Conference

Conference1st ACM International Workshop on Smart Cities and Fog Computing, CitiFog 2018, co-located with ACM SenSys 2018 and BuildSys 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period4/11/18 → …

Keywords

  • Empirical GPS Traces
  • Fog Computing Applications
  • Roadside Unit
  • Vehicular Networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Urban Studies
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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