Bangkok--26 Nov--Asian Institute of Technology
With nearly 40,000 deaths occurring in the United States every year due to road accidents, the concept of vehicular cloud is an area of significant interest. Vehicles are now ‘ talking’ to each other, leading to safer navigation, along with efficient and intelligent urban transportation.
This is how Prof. Mario Gerla of the department of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, introduced his day-long tutorial on “Vehicle Services and Vehicular Cloud Computing” at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 24 November 2014.
Prof. Gerla pointed out that the ‘vehicular cloud’ is different from the ‘internet cloud’ since it depends on the location of the vehicles. Vehicular cloud is sparse and intermittent, though it has the ability to interact with both the personal cloud and the internet cloud.
Applications of the vehicular cloud are no longer restricted to safety and transportation, and it is being increasingly used for serving location-specific information and advertisements. The concept of Person-to-Person (P2P) torrent downloading has been extended to vehicle services.
Coupled with these applications are issued related to surveillance and security. Safety and mobility are the other two significant challenges that ‘vehicular clouds’ seek to address, he said.
Prof. Gerla’s tutorial marked a milestone for the Asian School on Computer Science, since this was the 25th tutorial in the series, said Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut, Vice President for Research, AIT. Organized by AIT’s intERLab, the event drew nearly 50 scholars and researchers from numerous institutes and universities.