Systems and methods for fast vehicular micro cloud formation

A system for onboarding a vehicle to a vehicular micro cloud entering a vehicular micro cloud region, the vehicular micro cloud having a micro cloud leader, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory in communication with the processor, the memory having instructions that;
• when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive an identifier of the vehicle by the micro cloud leader, the micro cloud leader being another vehicle that is part of the vehicular micro cloud,
• in response to a determination by the micro cloud leader that the identifier of the vehicle matches information in metadata and a time to live has not expired, allow, by the micro cloud leader, the vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud without performing a standard onboarding procedure, the time to live having a duration based on a frequency in which the vehicle has previously accessed the vehicular micro cloud, and
• in response to a determination by the micro cloud leader that the identifier of the vehicle does not match information in the metadata, perform by the micro cloud leader the standard onboarding procedure for allowing the vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud.

A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor of a micro cloud leader, the micro cloud leader being another vehicle that is part of a vehicular micro cloud, cause the processor to:

• receive an identifier of a vehicle by the micro cloud leader;
• in response to a determination by the processor of the micro cloud leader that the identifier of the vehicle matches information in metadata and a time to live has not expired, allow, by the micro cloud leader, the vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud without performing a standard onboarding procedure, the time to live having a duration based on a frequency in which the vehicle has previously accessed the vehicular micro cloud;
• and
• in response to a determination by the processor of the micro cloud leader that the identifier of the vehicle does not match information in the metadata, perform by the micro cloud leader the standard onboarding procedure for allowing the vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud.