Gateway for vehicle with caching buffer for distributed storage system

A method, comprising:

• generating, by a gateway, links between controllers of a vehicle and resources for the controllers, wherein the links between the controllers of the vehicle and the resources are generated according to a stored group of approved devices;
• establishing, via the links, channels for communications between the controllers and the resources according to a cryptographic protocol;
• holding, by a caching buffer, data to be stored to data storage nodes of a distributed data storage system of the vehicle, wherein the caching buffer is configured to hold the data to be stored and data to be retrieved from the data storage nodes of the distributed data storage system of the vehicle by operations performed by the controllers of the vehicle for reuse a plurality of times before being discarded from the caching buffer wherein a portion of the data storage nodes of the vehicle serve as nodes of a private computer network external to the vehicle, wherein access to the private computer network external to the vehicle is facilitated via the channels established via the links between the controllers of the vehicle and the resources for the controllers;
• connecting an auxiliary storage device connected to a port of the vehicle to the distributed data storage system such that the auxiliary storage device becomes a data storage node of the distributed data storage system while the auxiliary storage device is connected to the port;
• and
• executing, by the controllers, functions of the vehicle according to the communications between the controllers and the resources.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a computing device, configured to:
• generate links between controllers of a vehicle and resources for the controllers, wherein the links between the controllers of the vehicle and the resources are generated according to a stored group of approved devices;
• and
• establish, via the links, secure channels for communication between the controllers and the resources according to a cryptographic protocol;
• a caching buffer, configured to hold data to be stored to data storage nodes of a distributed data storage system and to be retrieved from the data storage nodes of the distributed data storage system of the vehicle by operations performed by the controllers of the vehicle,
• wherein the caching buffer is configured to hold the data to be stored and retrieved for reuse a plurality of times before being discarded from the caching buffer;
• wherein a portion of the data storage nodes of the vehicle serve as nodes of a private computer network external to the vehicle,
• wherein access to the private computer network external to the vehicle is facilitated via the channels established via the links between the controllers of the vehicle and the resources for the controllers, and
• a port configured to:
• connect an auxiliary storage device connected to the port to the distributed data storage system such that the auxiliary storage device becomes a data storage node of the distributed data storage system while the auxiliary storage device is connected to the port.