Connection sharing on top of a virtualization layer to support Vehicular Cloud Computing

The vision of Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) is to harness the wealthy resources contributed by groups of vehicles to enable innovative information services on the road. We present an approach to support VCC on top of a virtualization layer, with the vehicles cooperating to create an infrastructure of virtual nodes that enable persistent storage of cloud state information. We present the architecture and the main procedures of the virtualization layer, along with simulation results for the new computing and networking model named Vehicular Cloud Networking (VCN).