Is Collaborative Data Uploading Feasible? A Case for Los Angeles with Vehicular Micro Clouds

Vehicular Micro Cloud (VMC) is a group of connected vehicles where vehicles collaborate on a task over the vehicular network. A potential use case of VMC is that micro cloud members transfer data to each other via Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) links, and the data is collaboratively uploaded to remote server (e.g., data center) when the connected vehicles are connected to a Wi-Fi network. In this paper, we focus on this use case and propose collaborative upload by VMC. We demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed method through the large-scale urban simulation (Los Angeles downtown traffic model). Our simulation results showed that the proposed method can reduce the upload data of traditional cellular network-based data upload by 50%.