Managing computational tasks in vehicle context

A method comprising:

• receiving a computational task;
• determining a processing resource requirement of the computational task;
• determining, from vehicles on a road segment, candidate participant vehicles proximally located relative to one another on the road segment at a first timestamp;
• determining vehicle movement data of the candidate participant vehicles;
• determining available processing resources of a candidate temporal vehicular virtual server (TVVS) at the first timestamp, the candidate TVVS comprising the candidate participant vehicles at the first timestamp;
• estimating available processing resources of the candidate TVVS at a second timestamp based on the vehicle movement data of the candidate participant vehicles, the second timestamp being subsequent to the first timestamp;
• determining that the computational task is executable on the candidate TVVS based on the processing resource requirement of the computational task, the available processing resources of the candidate TVVS at the first timestamp, and the estimated available processing resources of the candidate TVVS at the second timestamp;
• responsive to determining that the computational task is executable on the candidate TVVS, instructing the candidate participant vehicles to form a TVVS;
• and
• assigning the computational task to the TVVS to perform an execution of the computational task.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
• receive a computational task;
• determine a processing resource requirement of the computational task;
• determine 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;
• determine vehicle movement data of the first participant vehicles;
• estimate available processing resources of the first TVVS at a second timestamp based on the vehicle movement data of the first participant vehicles, the second timestamp being subsequent to the first timestamp;
• determine to execute the computational task on the first TVVS based on the processing resource requirement of the computational 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
• responsive to determining to execute the computational task on the first TVVS, assign the computational task to the first TVVS to perform an execution of the computational task.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
• receive a computational task;
• determine a processing resource requirement of the computational task;
• determine, from vehicles on a road segment, candidate participant vehicles proximally located relative to one another on the road segment at a first timestamp;
• determine vehicle movement data of the candidate participant vehicles;
• determine available processing resources of a candidate temporal vehicular virtual server (TVVS) at the first timestamp, the candidate TVVS comprising the candidate participant vehicles at the first timestamp;
• estimate available processing resources of the candidate TVVS at a second timestamp based on the vehicle movement data of the candidate participant vehicles, the second timestamp being subsequent to the first timestamp;
• determine that the computational task is executable on the candidate TVVS based on the processing resource requirement of the computational task, the available processing resources of the candidate TVVS at the first timestamp, and the estimated available processing resources of the candidate TVVS at the second timestamp;
• responsive to determining that the computational task is executable on the candidate TVVS, instruct the candidate participant vehicles to form a TVVS;
• and
• assign the computational task to the TVVS to perform an execution of the computational task.