Resource sharing between vehicles

Abstract

A vehicle resource management system provides vehicles with vehicle agents that enable sharing of resources, via peer-to-peer connections between vehicles or other resource providers and resource consumers. For example, a first vehicle may be allocated computing capacity, storage capacity, or networking capacity of a second vehicle for use by the first vehicle over an ephemeral connection between the vehicles. The first vehicle may broadcast a request for leased resources to a plurality of potential resource providers and may select a given resource provider based on attributes of the task to be performed, policies of the vehicle, and information indicated in responses received in response to the broadcast. Upon acceptance a cryptographic handshake may be performed to establish an ephemeral connection between the vehicle and resource provider to enable sharing of resources over a direct peer-to-peer connection.