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InCloud: a cloud-based middleware for vehicular infotainment systems

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Smart vehicles form pervasive environment to enhance user experience through multimedia enabled infotainment systems. In order to realize effective infotainment system for vehicles, we need to have context-aware applications that use latest (live) information for enhanced user experience. Such latest information is abundantly available on the Internet due to explosive growth of Web 3.0, which can be accessed through wireless communication infrastructures such as VANETs and LTE. In this paper we propose a cloud-based middleware framework, InCloud, for vehicular infotainment application development. The proposed framework follows service oriented architecture in which data filtering and fusion functionalities are delegated to the cloud. Data filtering and fusion reduce the data flow over wireless link. Furthermore, because most of the processing is done on the cloud, the client becomes lightweight and loosely coupled with Internet resources and underlying platforms in vehicles. We also propose a class-based fusion method for combining information from multiple resources on the Internet. The efficacy of the proposed framework is validated by developing three infotainment applications for vehicles: context-aware music, news, and an enhanced Direction (eDirection) application.

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  1. http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/map.shtml

  2. https://developers.google.com/kml/ (KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth and Google Maps)

  3. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

  4. http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/trip/map.shtml

  5. http://www.slashgear.com/google-projected-mode-android-tipped-to-take-on-apple-in-cars-02319097/

  6. https://bitbucket.org/mcrlab/incloud

  7. www.musicovery.com

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The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for funding this work through the International research group Program No IRG14-30.

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  1. Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 129188, UAE

    Mukesh Saini

  2. Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada

    Kazi Masudul Alam, Haolin Guo & Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

  3. SWE Department in the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Abdulhameed Alelaiwi

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Saini, M., Alam, K.M., Guo, H. et al. InCloud: a cloud-based middleware for vehicular infotainment systems. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 11621–11649 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-3158-4

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