RSU cloud and its resource management in support of enhanced vehicular applications

Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Mohsen Guizani, Soumaya Cherkaoui

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Abstract

We propose Roadside Unit (RSU) Clouds as a novel way to offer non-safety application with QoS for VANETs. The architecture of RSU Clouds is delineated, and consists of traditional RSUs and specialized micro-datacenters and virtual machines (VMs) using Software Defined Networking (SDN). SDN offers the flexibility to migrate or replicate virtual services and reconfigure the data forwarding rules dynamically. However, frequent changes to service hosts and data flows not only result in degradation of services, but are also costly for service providers. In this paper, we use Mininet to analyze and formally quantify the reconfiguration overhead. Our unique RSU Cloud Resource Management (CRM) model jointly minimizes reconfiguration overhead, cost of service deployment and infrastructure routing delay. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to utilize this approach. We compare the performance of purist approach to our Integer Linear Programming (ILP) model and our innovative heuristic for the CRM technique and discuss the results. We will show the benefits of a holistic approach in Cloud Resource Management with SDN.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages127-132
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479974702
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Mar 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2014 - Austin, United States
Duration: 8 Dec 201412 Dec 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period8/12/1412/12/14

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