Connected Vehicles and especially connected Autonomous Driving (AD) vehicles bring a whole new ecosystem with new requirements on the Cloud and the network architecture to support the new workloads and to satisfy the real-time service requirements. Such ecosystem includes the vehicles, the road infrastructure, the network infrastructure, and the Cloud.
Edge Computing based Vehicle-to-Cloud solutions enables edge cloud capabilities for different levels of autonomous driving, including Highly Autonomous Driving (HAD) and Fully Autonomous Driving (FAD)1 through providing different services for the driving process (e.g., High Definition real-time Maps, real-time traffic monitoring, and alerts, and richer passengers experience), supporting vehicles on roads to drive cooperatively and to be aware of road hazards, and providing better user experience and trust to drivers and passengers.
