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In this paper, the novel fog communications and computing paradigm is addressed by presenting an integrated system architecture, that is applied to achieve a full context awareness for vehicular networks and, consequently, to react on traffic anomalous conditions. In particular, we propose to adopt a specific co-designed approach involving application and networks layers. For the latter one, as no infrastructure usually exists, effective routing protocols are needed to guarantee a certain level of reliability of the information collected from individual vehicles. As a consequence, we investigated classical epidemic flooding based, network coding inspired and chord protocols. Besides, we resort to blockchain principle to design a distributed consensus sensing application. The system has been tested by resorting to OMNeT++ framework for its modularity, high fidelity and flexibility. Performance analysis has been conducted over realistic scenarios in terms of consensus making overhead, latency and scalability, pointing out the better trade-off allowing the overlay P2P network formation and the complete context awareness achieved by the vehicles community.
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Several technologies supporting this approach have been proposed within fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems, among which Cellular-V2X from 3GPP R14.
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This work has been supported by the project “GAUChO-A Green Adaptive Fog Computing and Networking Architecture” funded by the MIUR Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) Bando 2015—Grant 2015YPXH4W-004.
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Bonadio, A., Chiti, F., Fantacci, R. et al. An integrated framework for blockchain inspired fog communications and computing in internet of vehicles. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 11, 755–762 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-019-01476-y
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