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School of Computing
Warning: This page is under development. Material on this page was last updated:8/9/2017
Defining the research area referred to as 'Connected Vehicle' is challenging for at least two reasons: it involves research from multiple domains making CV research quite inter-disciplinary, and second, the nature of the research is evolving very quickly. Our research program in CV involves faculty, staff, and students from multiple academic departments at Clemson University over multiple Colleges inclucing Engineering, Business, and Life Sciences. This page provides a brief summary of our research progress with the CV application and supporting infrastructure that has been funded by the NSF/USignite program.
As described in our summary of the South Carolina Connected Vehicle Testbed, we have developed and deployed a small CV testbed at Clemson University. The system includes hardware components as well as software that runs on the nodes in the system. Please refer to the summary of ThinGs In a Fog (TGIF). In brief, TGIF was designed to help us explore design and system issues surrounding the development of a CV application in a distributed computing environment that reflects the basic properties of an Edge (or Fog) computing system. We have focused on several safety related applications (collision avoidance, CACC) and on the Queue Warning application. The US DOT has published a Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA) to serve as a guide to the community. CRVIA provides top level designs for a set of CV applications that are assumed relevant. The designs do not map well to distributed environments. Our research involved the development of an appropriate design for Queue Warning that fit our system. Interactions between the infrastructure the CV applications team members were crucial to developing an appropriate systems architecture that could support a diverse range of CV application. There were similar design efforts involving non-engineering faculty, GIS and water monitoring, that also helped steer the system in an appropriate design direction.
There are several papers underdevelopment- these will be made available on this page soon. Further information on TGIF and the work related to the Queue Warning application can be found in this paper that was recently published at VTC2017. The presentation slides are here.