A framework for vehicular cloud computing

With the abundant on-board resources in smart vehicles, they have been considered major candidates for providing ubiquitous services. Processing and storage resources provided through on-board units along with a variety of sensing and communication capabilities can turn smart vehicles into potential computing engines that can be pooled to serve as powerful vehicular clouds (VCs). Computing tasks can be assigned to dynamically-formed VCs supporting a wide scope of ICT applications. In this paper, we introduce a framework for vehicular cloud computing. This framework aims at providing an inclusive architecture to manage the whole operation of a VC through different layers/types of controllers. Preliminary results are presented showing some of the benefits of utilizing vehicular cloud computing.