Technical Report: Dynamic Data Delivery Framework to Connected Vehicles
via Edge Nodes with Variable Routes
Abstract
With increasing connectivity and sophisticated software, the modern
vehicles are able to leverage different kinds of services provided by
the environment. One such service recommended by Automotive Edge
Computing Consortium (AECC) is the downloading of high-definition map
data by vehicles. This high volume of data can be provided to the
vehicles when they are moving by allocating resources on edge server
nodes or roadside units if the route is known apriori. However, this is
not a realistic assumption to make in general. Therefore, in this work,
we propose a two-stage optimization framework for efficient data
delivery to connected vehicles via edge nodes while considering dynamic
route changes. We have evaluated the efficiency of this proposed
approach (considering a real-world dataset) with respect to (a) offline
optimization strategies considering fixed routes and (b) two heuristics
considering route changes. Our proposed approach works considerably
better than the existing approaches in the context of dynamic route
changes.