Managing computational tasks in vehicle context

Abstract

A method receives a computational task; determines a processing resource requirement of the computational task; determines available processing resources of a first temporal vehicular virtual server (TVVS) at a first timestamp, the first TVVS comprising first participant vehicles proximally located relative to one another on a road segment at the first timestamp; determines vehicle movement data of the first participant vehicles; estimates available processing resources of the first TVVS at a second timestamp subsequent to the first timestamp based on the vehicle movement data of the first participant vehicles; determines to execute the computational task on the first TVVS based on the processing resource requirement of the computation task, the available processing resources of the first TVVS at the first timestamp, and the estimated available processing resources of the first TVVS at the second timestamp; and assigns the computational task to the first TVVS to execute the computational task.