Computer Science

Poster: Making Distributed Aggregation Fault-tolerant in Vehicular Networks

Jason Posner, Boston College
Yuning Yang, Duke University
Lewis Tseng, Boston College
Takamasa Higuchi, InfoTech Labs Toyota Motor North America RD
Onur Altintas, InfoTech Labs Toyota Motor North America RD

Abstract

Distributed aggregation allows users to collect data efficiently in a large-scale network. It also has a wide spectrum of applications in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs), such as vehicular sensing networks and a foundational platform for smart city applications. However, due to constraints such as a rapidly changing network topology, failures in VANETs are unavoidable. In this poster, we outline several different fault-tolerant designs and provide preliminary evaluation results for one VANET application.