Foud: Integrating Fog and Cloud for 5G-Enabled V2G Networks

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology is considered as a powerful approach enabling renewable energy sources to provide ancillary electrical services, and managing & monitoring power usage in the “smart grid”. However, owing to the inherent high mobility of Electric Vehicle (EV ), flexible and timely on-demand response services against EV mobility in the V2G system must be provided. Promoted by the advantages of 5G communications, e.g., supporting various connectivity and faster transmission, fogs and clouds are enabled to provide realistic services, and, fog computing and cloud computing assisted V2G system in future 5G mobile network is being expected to be a new paradigm to create a new situation for V2G services. To this end, a fog- and cloud-based hybrid computing model named “Foud” applied to V2G networks in 5G is proposed. The potential V2G network services provided by “Foud” are reviewed, and some open issues and challenges for future work have been also discussed with possible solutions.