System for constructing stopped vehicle-infrastructure communication network

• US 9,996,993 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2015
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Hui, Pan, Wu, Ting, Peylo, Christoph
• Primary Examiner(s): Kan, Yuri
• Application Number:
  US15/126,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20170084096A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,191 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5044 considering hardware capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method for utilizing the computing and/or storage resources of at least one parked vehicle includes recognizing the presence of at least one parked vehicle; establishing a network connection between at least one vehicle communication device of the at least one parked vehicle and at least one server; collecting information from the at least one parked vehicle; dispatching at least one task to the at least one vehicle communication device, wherein the at least one dispatched task comprises at least one of a computational task and a storing task; and performing the at least one dispatched task.

Claims

1. A method for utilizing computing and/or storage resources of at least one parked vehicle performing at least a portion of a task, the method comprising:

recognizing a presence of at least one parked vehicle;

establishing a network connection between at least one vehicle processor of the at least one parked vehicle and at least one serer;

collecting information from the at least one parked vehicle, the collected information including at least one of a current computational capacity and a current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle;

dividing the task into a plurality of sub-tasks, wherein each subtask includes at least one of a computational task and a storing task;

dispatching at least one task of the plurality of subtasks to the at least one vehicle processor based on the at least one of the current computational capacity and the current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle; and

performing, by the at least one vehicle processor of the at least one parked vehicle, the at least on dispatched subtask.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining a result of performing the at least one dispatched subtask from the at least one vehicle processor.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

recognizing when the at least one parked vehicle is leaving its parking position; and

retrieving the result of performing the at least one dispatched subtask from the at least one vehicle processor before the at least one parked vehicle leaves its parking position.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the at least one dispatched subtask is completely performed by the at least one vehicle processor; and

redispatching an uncompleted portion of the at least one dispatched subtask to at least one other vehicle processor of another vehicle when it is determined that the at least one dispatched subtask is not completely performed by the at least one vehicle processor, or

redispatching the at least one dispatched subtask to at least one other vehicle processor of another vehicle when it is determined that the at least one dispatched subtask is not performed from the at least one vehicle processor and/or is not retrieved from the at least one vehicle processor.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

authenticating the at least one parked vehicle and/or establishing a secure session for data transfer between the at least one parked vehicle and the at least one server.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the presence of the at least one parked vehicle is recognized by sensing whether the parked vehicle is parked at a parking position.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the collected information further includes at least one of:

information gathered by the at least one vehicle along its trajectory, the gathered information including traffic conditions, weather conditions and/or information on emergencies,

information on a power status and/or a power consumption of the at least one vehicle, and

information including data collected from at least one onboard sensor of the at least one vehicle.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein establishing the network connection between the at least one vehicle processor of the at least one parked vehicle and the at least one server is performed via at least one external edge device including a processor and one or more sensors.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the task is constructing a map with latest traffic conditions of city,

wherein dividing, by the at least one server, the task into a plurality of sub-tasks comprises partitioning the map into a plurality of sup-maps,

wherein the at least one sub-task is constructing a sup-map with the latest traffic conditions of a partition of the city.

7. A method for providing computing and/or storage resources of at least one parked vehicle for the performance of at least a portion of a task, the method comprising:

providing information from the at least one parked vehicle to at least one server, via a network connection between at least one vehicle processor of the at least one parked vehicle and the at least one server, the information including at least one of a current computational capacity and a current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle;

receiving, by the at least one vehicle processor, at least one dispatched subtask from the at least one server, wherein the at least one dispatched subtask is produced as a result of dividing, by the at least one server, the task into a plurality of sub-tasks, wherein the at least one dispatched subtask includes at least one of a computational task and a storing task, and wherein the at least one dispatched subtask is dispatched based on the at least one of the current computational capacity and the current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle; and

performing, by the at least one vehicle processor, the at least one dispatched subtask received from the at least one vehicle server.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

sending the information including at least one of the current computational capacity and the current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle to at least one external edge device including a processor and one or more sensors.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

sending authenticating information on the at least one parked vehicle to at least one external edge device including a processor and one or more sensors.

17. The method according to claim 7, wherein providing the information from the at least one parked vehicle to the at least one server is performed via at least one external edge device including a processor and one or more sensors.

11. A vehicle communication device for providing computing and/or storage resources of at least one parked vehicle performing of at least a portion of a task, the vehicle communication device comprising:

a controller configured to provide a network connection with at least one server, to receive at least one dispatched subtask from at least one edge device including an edge processor and one or more sensors, and to provide information from the at least one parked vehicle to the at least one edge device via the network connection, the information including at least one of a current computational capacity and a current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle,

a processor configured to perform the at least one dispatched subtask received from the at least one edge device, and

a memory configured to store the information to be provided to the at least one edge device,

wherein the dispatched subtask is produced as a result of dividing, by the at least one server, the task into a plurality of sub-tasks,

wherein the dispatched subtask includes at least one of a computational task and a storing task, and

wherein the at least on dispatched subtask is dispatched based on the at least one of the current computational capacity and the current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle.

19. The vehicle communication device according to claim 11, wherein the task is constructing a map with latest traffic conditions of city,

wherein dividing, by the at least one server, the task into a plurality of sub-tasks comprises partitioning the map into a plurality of sup-maps,

wherein the at least one sub-task is constructing a sup-map with the latest traffic conditions of a partition of the city.

12. A system for utilizing computing and/or storage resources of at least one parked vehicle performing of at least a portion of a task, the system comprising:

an edge device including a processor and one or more sensors configured to recognize a presence of at least one parked vehicle, the edge device configured to establish a connection between at least one vehicle processor of the at least one parked vehicle and at least one other edge device including at least one other processor and one or more other sensors, the edge device being further configured to collect information from the at least one parked vehicle, the information including at least one of a current computational capacity and a current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle, and

at least one server configured to divide the task into a plurality of sub-tasks, wherein each subtask includes at least one of a computational task and a storing task, dispatch at least one subtask to the at least one vehicle processor such that the at least one vehicle processor performs the at least one subtask, wherein the at least one dispatched subtask is dispatched based on the at least one of the current computational capacity and the current storage capacity of the at least one parked vehicle.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the edge device is further configured to recognize when the at least one parked vehicle is leaving its parking position and is configured to retrieve a result of performing the at least one dispatched subtask from the at least one vehicle processor before the at least one parked vehicle leaves its parking position.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein the server is further configured to determine whether the at least one dispatched subtask is completely performed from the at least one vehicle communication device, and to redispatch an uncompleted portion of the at least one dispatched subtask to at least one other vehicle communication device in case that it is determined that the at least one dispatched subtask is not completely performed from the at least one vehicle processor, or is further configured to redispatch the at least one dispatched subtask to at least one other vehicle processor of another vehicle in case that it is determined that the at least one dispatched subtask is not performed from the at least one vehicle processor and/or is not retrieved from the at least one vehicle processor.

15. The system according to claim 12, wherein the one or more sensors of the edge device are configured to recognize the presence of at least one parked vehicle by sensing whether the parked vehicle is parked on a parking position and/or by obtaining a presence signal of the at least one parked vehicle.

20. The system according to claim 12, wherein the task is constructing a map with latest traffic conditions of city,

wherein dividing, by the at least one server, the task into a plurality of sub-tasks comprises partitioning the map into a plurality of sup-maps,

wherein the at least one sub-task is constructing a sup-map with the latest traffic conditions of a partition of the city.