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> in car (network/PC platform) infrastructure should support this
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This UAP (3.1) focuses on access technologies in mobile vehicle, which is a counter part to network and data analysis platforms of city infrastructure. In-car mobile computing platform must support seamless integration vehicular technologies and applications with city infrastructure, creating a harmonized traffic system. In which, enabling mobile data communication specifically designed for innovative vehicular applications plays an important role.
AP (Task) 3.1.1 - Carpc gateway with a fancy name - vehicular technologies integration point
AP (Task) 3.1.2 - Realization of Adaptive flow-based network with delegated control
DC is a promising data flow control mechanism, whose characteristics directly address network requirements for hyper dynamic environment created by autonomous driving: i) constant low latency data flow in spite of , ii) intermittent connectivity, iii) heterogeneous wireless technologies, e.g., DSRC, WiFi, Broadband, iv) heterogeneous on-demand QoS classes. DC enables autonomic forward control with global network context, where there is absence of connectivity with centralized controller. Intelligent real-time decision making is pre-computed and embedded in forwarding protocols, which still allows essential data flows among mobile vehicles in case infrastructure network connectivity becomes unstable. Such unreliability in infrastructure networks is caused by their designs, leading to quick decrease in QoS in peek demand, e.g., high latency, congestion, retransmision, computing demand during emergency situations. Given high dynamic requirement of mobile vehicles, small increase in delay may has great impact on their computing platform, which can be self-healed with DC.
AP (Task) 3.1.3 - Enabling flow based packet switching with heterogeneous wireless technologies
To enable DC in vehicular platform, flow based packet switching capability is required for dynamic control of flow through heterogeneous wireless interfaces, i.e., DSRC, WiFi, LTE. Unfortunately, current flow based switches only support transport networks, which operate mainly on wired technology. In this AP OpenFlow protocol and its implementation OpenVSwitch are extended to enable handling of wireless packets. Additionally, the switch is extended to support the envisioned DC paradigm.