Managing Trade-off Between Subscription Load and Latency in Vehicular Edge Platform

Abstract

Adding connectivity to vehicles is attracting much attention toward developing smarter vehicles such as autonomous cars. To obtain and utilize real-time information from vehicles, techniques that combine the concept of edge computing and publish/subscribe messaging model have been proposed. However, there is an issue that the increase in the number of edge servers imposes a heavy load upon a subscriber for managing connections to them. To address this issue, we propose an edge-based platform with the functionality of adjusting the number of connections to edge servers. Experimental results clarify the trade-off characteristic between subscription load and latency.