Taxonomy of an application model:Toward building large scale, connected vehicle applications

With the advent of advanced computing systems beyond personal computing, such as mobile computing, cloud computing or recently, vehicular ad-hoc network, it is crucial that we understand the application development process of each type of these systems. Better understanding of how applications are built in different environment allows us to design better application models and system supports for developers. This paper studies the taxonomy of application models and defines its consisting aspects, namely application scope, application abstraction level, application structure, communication model and programming model. With the better understanding of the application models in general, we lay out the requirements for developing a class of large scale connected vehicle applications

PlaSA - Platooning Service Architecture

Platooning is a solution that allows automated vehicles to travel very close to each other, enabling enhancements in terms of safety, traffic flow and highway capacities. Furthermore, it provides a more convenient and comfortable driving experience to the drivers. The research on Platooning covers a very large spectrum of areas, ranging from communication strategies to controller solutions. However, most of the proposed works tend to present very specific solutions, treating platooning almost as a "black-box". Thus, it is imperative to find solutions that allow a proper assembly of every component that is crucial for a proper behavior of the system as a whole. This paper presents an open and modular architecture for platooning as a service, discussing its general assumptions and the logical and functional models. Additionally, some related preliminary results are also presented.This work has been sponsored by the Portugal Incentive System for Research and Technological Development. Project in co-promotion no 002797/2015 (INNOVCAR 2015-2018), and also by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013