Autonomous vehicle communication framework for multi-network scenarios
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsAnish Rawat, Dario Sabella
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Abstract
Approaches for Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), Vehicle-To-Vehicle (V2V), and Autonomous Vehicles Distributed Networks (AVDN) functions in a MEC infrastructure are discussed. In various examples, operations and network configurations are described that use a service in an AVDN, including: identifying a service condition (e.g., based on a state of a service and connectivity to an instance of the service); establishing a connection in the AVDN in response to the service condition (e.g., using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network communications to the AVDN); and performing a service operation with the service via the AVDN.
Claims25
A user equipment (UE) of a first autonomous vehicle (AV), comprising:
- a network interface configured to perform vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network communications with an autonomous vehicle distributed network (AVDN);
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- at least one processor configured to:
- identify a service condition based on a state of a service and connectivity to an instance of the service in an infrastructure network;
- establish a connection in the AVDN to a second UE at a second AV in response to the service condition, using the V2V or V2X network communications, the AVDN further to provide connectivity between the UE and the second UE for use of the service;
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- perform a service operation with the service via the AVDN, using the connection to the second UE.
At least one non-transitory machine readable medium including instructions for coordinating service operations from a first user equipment (UE) of an autonomous vehicle (AV) with an autonomous vehicle distributed network (AVDN), wherein the instructions, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:
- identify a service condition, based on a state of a service and connectivity to an instance of the service in an infrastructure network;
- establish a connection in the AVDN to a second UE at a second AV in response to the service condition, using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network communications to the AVDN, the AVDN further to provide connectivity between the UE and the second UE for use of the service;
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- perform a service operation with the service via the AVDN, using the connection to the second UE.
A system, comprising:
- at least one network communication device adapted to perform vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network communications;
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- at least one processing device that, when in operation, is configured by instructions to:
- operate the at least one network communication device to establish an autonomous vehicle distributed network (AVDN), using the V2V or V2X network communications;
- receive a service request via the AVDN, the AVDN further to provide connectivity between the at least one processing device and at least one other device to operate at least one service;
- identify a service condition based on the service request;
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- perform a service operation with the at least one service, via the AVDN, based on the identified service condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.