Patent attributes
The disclosure includes embodiments for ensuring a satisfaction of a resource demand in a vehicular micro cloud. In some embodiments, a method for a connected vehicle that is a member of the vehicular micro cloud that includes multiple connected vehicles that share their computing resources and computing services with one another, includes: modifying an operation of a communication unit of the connected vehicle to receive a notification message from a communication server; determining that an allocation function included in the notification message meets an expectation of the connected vehicle, where the allocation function is configured to satisfy the resource demand of the vehicular micro cloud while limiting a total allocation distributed by the communication server; and responsive to the allocation function meeting the expectation, provisioning a resource requested by the notification message to the vehicular micro cloud for use by any member of the vehicular micro cloud.
