Lost data recovery for vehicle-to-vehicle distributed data storage systems

A system comprising:

• an onboard vehicle computer system of a connected vehicle in a vehicular micro cloud, including a communication unit, a processor and a non-transitory memory storing computer code which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
• detect that one or more data segments of a first data set are lost during a first data handover function transmitted over a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network, wherein the first data set is partitioned into multiple data segments including the one or more data segments during a previous data handover function performed prior to the first data handover function;
• and
• modify an operation of the communication unit of the connected vehicle to collect the one or more data segments from a set of overhearing vehicles that overhears the one or more data segments during the previous data handover function so that the first data set is recovered on the connected vehicle.