An Integrated Framework for Fog Communications and Computing in Internet of Vehicles

9 pages•Published: October 23, 2018

Alessio Bonadio, Francesco Chiti and Romano Fantacci

Abstract

In this paper, the novel Fog Communications and Computing paradigm is addressed by presenting an integrated system architecture, that is applied to achieve a full con- text awareness for vehicular networks and, consequently, to react on traffic anomalous conditions. In particular, we propose to adopt a specific co-designed approach involving Application and Networks Layers. For the latter one, as no infrastructure usually exists, effective routing protocols are needed to guarantee a certain level of reliability of the in- formation collected from individual vehicles. As a consequence, we investigated classical Epidemic Flooding based, Network Coding inspired and Chord protocols. Besides, we resort to Blockchain principle to design a distributed consensus sensing application. The system has been tested by resorting to OMNeT++ framework for its modularity, high fidelity and flexibility. Performance analysis has been conducted over realistic scenarios in terms of consensus making overhead, latency and scalability, pointing out the better trade-off allowing the overlay P2P network formation and the complete context awareness achieved by the vehicles community.

Keyphrases: blockchain, chord, epidemic flooding based, fog communications and computing, internet of vehicles, network coding

In: Anna Förster, Asanga Udugama, Antonio Virdis and Giovanni Nardini (editors). Proceedings of the 5th International OMNeT++ Community Summit, vol 56, pages 84-92.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/L1jn
	https://doi.org/10.29007/c5kn

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{OMNeT2018:Integrated_Framework_Fog_Communications,
  author    = {Alessio Bonadio and Francesco Chiti and Romano Fantacci},
  title     = {An Integrated Framework for Fog Communications and Computing in Internet of Vehicles},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International OMNeT++ Community Summit},
  editor    = {Anna Förster and Asanga Udugama and Antonio Virdis and Giovanni Nardini},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {56},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/L1jn},
  doi       = {10.29007/c5kn},
  pages     = {84-92},
  year      = {2018}}

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