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zhou2026vehicular

Ziqi Zhou, Agon Memedi, Chunghan Lee, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas and Falko Dressler, "Vehicular Micro Clouds for Distributed Computing in the Edge-Cloud-Continuum," in Cloud-Network Convergence, Jie Wu, Jiansong Zhang and Shen Gao (Eds.), Springer, 2026. (to appear)

Abstract

Many applications have been conceptualized in the field of vehicular networking that inherently build upon extensive computing capabilities. Early adoption was entirely cloud based, and many car makers worldwide established their own cloud infrastructure to support this. This was then complemented by cloud-based solutions from third parties. Applications range from entertainment to cooperative awareness to collective perception to cooperative driving. Given the potentially huge delay such applications may experience, as well as to improve the resilience of collaborative applications, the edge-cloud-continuum has been explored from a vehicular perspective. Most notably, the concept of vehicular micro clouds (VMCs) has been introduced, bridging the gap between local processing and delay-extensive cloud solutions. Conceptually, this idea extends 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) to a distributed computing environment. In this chapter, we review the motivation and underlying architecture of such VMCs. We particularly focus on recent research findings related to task offloading and information up-/downloading from cars to edge to cloud. We conclude the discussion with an outlook to ongoing research on distributed artificial intelligence by and for vehicles optimizing driving decisions and improving safety on the road.

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Ziqi Zhou
Agon Memedi
Chunghan Lee
Seyhan Ucar
Onur Altintas
Falko Dressler

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@incollection{zhou2026vehicular,
    author = {Zhou, Ziqi and Memedi, Agon and Lee, Chunghan and Ucar, Seyhan and Altintas, Onur and Dressler, Falko},
    note = {to appear},
    title = {{Vehicular Micro Clouds for Distributed Computing in the Edge-Cloud-Continuum}},
    booktitle = {Cloud-Network Convergence},
    editor = {Wu, Jie and Zhang, Jiansong and Gao, Shen},
    publisher = {Springer},
    year = {2026},
   }
   
   

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