Hovering data clouds: A decentralized and self-organizing information system

Axel Wegener, Elad M. Schiller, Horst Hellbrück, Sándor P. Fekete, Stefan Fischer

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Abstract

With ever-increasing numbers of cars, traffic congestion on the roads is a very serious economic and environmental problem for our modern society. Existing technologies for traffic monitoring and management require stationary infrastructure. These approaches lack flexibility with respect to system deployment, and unpredictable events (e.g., accidents). Moreover, the delivery of traffic reports from radio stations is imprecise and often outdated. In the project AutoNomos we aim at developing a decentralized system for traffic monitoring and managing, based on vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). Our objective is to design a system for traffic forecasting that can deliver faster and more appropriate reactions to unpredictable events. In our design, cars collect traffic information, extract the relevant data, and generate traffic reports. A key concept are so-called Hovering Data Clouds (HDCs), which are based on the insight that many crucial structures in traffic (e.g., traffic jams) lead an existence that is independent of the individual cars they are composed of. The result is an elegant, robust and self-organizing distributed information system. In this paper we demonstrate first experimental results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSelf-Organizing Systems - First International Workshop, IWSOS 2006, and Third International Workshop on New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, EuroNGI 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages243-247
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)3540376585, 9783540376583
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2006, and Third International Workshop on New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, EuroNGI 2006 - Passau, Germany
Duration: 18 Sep 200620 Sep 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4124 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2006, and Third International Workshop on New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, EuroNGI 2006
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityPassau
Period18/09/0620/09/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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