A network stack for computation-centric vehicular networking

Abstract

Recently, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) connectivity transitioned from a vision of the future to reality. Applications in such environments vary from local propagation of road conditions to large-scale traffic flow control systems. In this demo, we present a network stack for the data exchange in the automotive IoT, based on the Named Function Networking (NFN) principles. In NFN, the communication model is not restricted to propagation of static data but natively supports computation-offloading to other nodes. We present solutions and report on experiments with real cars on a test course.