Connected Vehicle Application Development Platform (CVDeP) for Edge-centric Cyber-Physical Systems

TL;DR

This paper presents CVDeP, a scalable and secure platform enabling real-time development, testing, and debugging of connected vehicle applications in edge-centric cyber-physical systems, validated through field tests.

Contribution

It introduces a novel platform, CVDeP, that meets latency, scalability, and security requirements for CV application development and testing.

Findings

CVDeP effectively meets latency and throughput requirements.

The platform maintains scalability and security during testing.

Field evaluation confirms platform's efficacy in real-world scenarios.

Abstract

Connected vehicle (CV) application developers need a development platform to build, test and debug CV applications, such as safety, mobility, and environmental applications, in an edge-centric Cyber-Physical Systems. Our study objective is to develop and evaluate a scalable and secure CV application development platform (CVDeP) that enables the CV application developers to build, test and debug CV applications in real-time. CVDeP ensures that the functional requirements of the CV applications meet the latency requirements imposed by corresponding CV applications. We conducted a case study to evaluate the efficacy of CVDeP using two CV applications (one safety and one mobility application) and validated them through a field evaluation at the Clemson University Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Testbed (CU-CAVT). The analysis outcome proves the efficacy of CVDeP, which satisfies the functional requirements (e.g., latency, throughput) of a CV application while maintaining scalability, and security of the platform and applications.