PUBLISH: A Distributed Service Advertising Scheme for Vehicular Cloud Networks

Vehicular Cloud (VC) has gained popularity today allowing mobile users to access a variety of on demand resources while on the move using low cost Vehicular Network. VC enables vehicles with sufficient resources to act as mobile cloud servers and provide their computing, communication and caching resources to nearby vehicles. However, due to high mobility and intermittent connectivity, it is challenging for mobile users to efficiently discover providers’ services before request targeted services from them. Therefore, service advertising is of great interest with which offered services by Provider Vehicles (PVs) in the vehicular cloud can be fast propagated into the network. Given PVs’ limited budget for renting advertiser vehicles, how to achieve the maximum service advertising coverage within a given period of time for a given budget requirements is NP-hard. This work aims to propose a new Centrality-based approach, PUBLISH, for PVs’ services advertising in the vehicular cloud. We exploit the centrality score of both services and vehicles to find the best set of ’appropriate’ vehicles as services advertisers. Results from scalable simulations show that PUBLISH efficiently identify the best services advertisers in comparison to other schemes in the literature.

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