A Survey on Distributed Vehicular Computing and Communications

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey on Distributed Vehicular Computing and Communications"

by

Mr. Ahmad ALHILAL


Abstract:

The advances in information and communication technology have 
revolutionized the automotive industry, leading to smart and connected 
vehicles. These vehicles are expected to collaborate with each other, with 
the road infrastructure, and with powerful computation nodes to deliver 
novel services and applications. Such services and applications require 1) 
Ingestion of massive data that perceives the ambient environments, 2) 
Transmission of data through ultra-reliable and low-latency communication, 
3) Processing and providing decision support under application-specific 
constraints.

Addressing such constraints for vehicular applications leads to 
significant challenges with the existing communication and computation 
technologies. In this survey, we present these requirements and 
challenges, investigate the promising technologies for vehicular 
communications, architectures, and big data and Artificial Intelligence 
(AI) technologies to address these challenges and meet the requirements. 
We highlight the differences between the potential communication 
technologies - DSRC, ETSI ITS-G5, LTE and 5G - and their respective 
applications. We also explore the potential computation technologies, 
including Centralized Cloud Computing, Vehicular Cloud Computing, and 
Vehicular Edge computing. We then further investigate data streaming and 
analytics components, and their integration in a way to meet vehicular 
network's requirements.  Finally, we provide insights and discuss future 
research directions according to the requirements of the new class of soon 
to come applications.


Date:			Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Time:                  	4:00pm - 6:00pm

Venue:                  Room 4475
                         Lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Dr. Pan Hui (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Shuai Wang (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Dimitrios Papadopoulos
 			Dr. Raymond Wong


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