Service Migration in Fog Computing Enabled Cellular Networks to Support Real-Time Vehicular CommunicationsShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: IEEE Access, E-ISSN 2169-3536, Vol. 7, p. 13704-13714, article id 8620320Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Driven by the increasing number of connected vehicles and related services, powerful communication and computation capabilities are needed for vehicular communications, especially for real-time and safety-related applications. A cellular network consists of radio access technologies, including the current long-term evolution (LTE), the LTE advanced, and the forthcoming 5th generation mobile communication systems. It covers large areas and has the ability to provide high data rate and low latency communication services to mobile users. It is considered the most promising access technology to support real-time vehicular communications. Meanwhile, fog is an emerging architecture for computing, storage, and networking, in which fog nodes can be deployed at base stations to deliver cloud services close to vehicular users. In fog computing-enabled cellular networks, mobility is one of the most critical challenges for vehicular communications to maintain the service continuity and to satisfy the stringent service requirements, especially when the computing and storage resources are limited at the fog nodes. Service migration, relocating services from one fog server to another in a dynamic manner, has been proposed as an effective solution to the mobility problem. To support service migration, both computation and communication techniques need to be considered. Given the importance of protocol design to support the mobility of the vehicles and maintain high network performance, in this paper, we investigate the service migration in the fog computing-enabled cellular networks. We propose a quality-of-service aware scheme based on the existing handover procedures to support the real-time vehicular services. A case study based on a realistic vehicle mobility pattern for Luxembourg scenario is carried out, where the proposed scheme, as well as the benchmarks, are compared by analyzing latency and reliability as well as migration cost.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. Vol. 7, p. 13704-13714, article id 8620320
Keywords [en]
Connected vehicles, fog computing, service migration, 4G mobile communication systems, Digital storage, Fog, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Mobile telecommunication systems, Quality of service, Radio access networks, Radio broadcasting, Vehicles, Wireless networks, Communication techniques, Critical challenges, Emerging architectures, Low-latency communication, Radio access technologies, Service requirements, Vehicular communications
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-37938DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2893571Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85061733224OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-37938DiVA, id: diva2:1293866
Note
Funding details: Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse för Naturvetenskaplig och Medicinsk Forskning; Funding details: Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, 508206351021; Funding details: National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC, 61671212, 61550110240; Funding text 1: This work was supported in part by the Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse, in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant 508206351021, and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61550110240 and Grant 61671212.
2019-03-052019-03-052023-05-25Bibliographically approved