Virtualized road-side units for vehicle-to-everything communication

A method of virtualizing a road-side unit (RSU), the method comprising:

• establishing a point-to-point connection between a computing device and a vehicle over an interface for a wireless cellular communication link;
• processing a transmission from the vehicle carrying a set of location information of the vehicle;
• associating the vehicle with an identifier based at least in part upon the set of location information;
• processing, at a virtual RSU (vRSU) service of the computing device, a set of infrastructure information associated with the identifier;
• and
• generating, based upon the processing of the set of infrastructure information associated with the identifier, a message for transmission to the vehicle over the interface for the wireless cellular communication link,
• wherein the computing device is an edge computing device, and wherein the transmission is a first transmission, the set of location information is a first set of location information, the identifier is a first identifier, the vRSU service is a first vRSU service of the computing device, the set of infrastructure information is a first set of infrastructure information, and the message is a first message, comprising:
• processing a second transmission from the vehicle carrying a second set of location information of the vehicle;
• associating the vehicle with a second identifier based at least in part upon the second set of location information;
• processing, at a second vRSU service of the computing device, a second set of infrastructure information associated with the second identifier;
• and
• generating, based upon the processing of the second set of infrastructure information associated with the second identifier, a second message for transmission to the vehicle over the interface for the wireless cellular communication link.

A virtual Road-Side Unit (vRSU) system, comprising:

• one or more antennas supporting transmission and reception over a wireless cellular communication link between the system and a vehicle;
• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory memory having executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
• establish a point-to-point connection over the wireless cellular communication link;
• process a transmission from the vehicle carrying a set of location information of the vehicle;
• associate a vehicle with an identifier, via a location service of the system, the identifier being based at least in part upon the set of location information of the vehicle;
• establish a subscription, for the vehicle, to the identifier;
• process, at a virtual RSU (vRSU) service of the system, a set of infrastructure information associated with the identifier;
• publish the set of infrastructure information to the identifier;
• and
• generate, based upon the subscription of the vehicle to the identifier, a message for transmission to the vehicle over the wireless cellular communication link, the message being based upon the set of infrastructure information;
• wherein
• the transmission is a first transmission, the set of location information is a first set of location information, the identifier is a first identifier, the vRSU service is a first vRSU service of the system, the set of infrastructure information is a first set of infrastructure information, and the message is a first message, the executable instructions, when executed, causing the one or more processors to:
• process a second transmission from the vehicle carrying a second set of location information of the vehicle;
• associate the vehicle with a second identifier, via the location service of the system, the second identifier being based at least in part upon the second set of location information;
• establish a subscription, for the vehicle, to the second identifier;
• process, at a second vRSU service of the system, a second set of infrastructure information associated with the second identifier;
• publish the second set of infrastructure information to the second identifier;
• and
• generate, based upon the subscription of the vehicle to the second identifier, a second message for transmission to the vehicle over the wireless cellular communication link, the second message being based upon the second set of infrastructure information.