Mobile Edge Computing-Assisted Admission Control in Vehicular Networks: The Convergence of Communication and Computation

With the spread of vehicular networks (VNs), technologies are needed to enable them to be more reliable, to deliver lower latency, and to handle more intensive computation. Mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides an IT service environment and cloud-computing capability at the edge of radio access networks, has the potential to meet these requirements. We propose an architecture and an admission control mechanism for MEC-assisted VNs that can greatly reduce the service latency, improve the effective throughput, and help make VNs live up to their potential.