Tencent has been deploying Tars on Connected Vehicle Blueprint and validating on IEC Type 4: AR/VR oriented Edge Stack for Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) Blueprint Family.

Connect Vehicle Blueprint

For Connected Vehicle Blueprint，Connected Vehicle Blueprint focuses on establishing an open-source MEC platform, which is the backbone for the V2X application.   

From the use case perspective,  the following are the potential use cases. More is possible in the future.

• Accurate Location: Accuracy of location improved by over 10 times than today’s GPS system. Today’s GPS system is around 5-10 meters away from your reallocation, <1 meter is possible with the help of Connected Vehicle Blueprint. 
• Smarter Navigation: Real-time traffic information update, reduce the latency from minutes to seconds, figure out the most efficient way for drivers.
• Safe Drive Improvement: Figure out the potential risks which can NOT be seen by the driver.
• Reduce traffic violation: Let the driver understand the traffic rules in some specific area. For instance,  change the line prior to a narrow street, avoiding the opposite way drive in the one-way road, avoiding carpool lane when a single driver and so on.

From the network architecture perspective,  the blueprint can be deployed in both 4G and 5G networks. Two key points should be paid special attention to.

1. One is offloading data to edge MEC platform.  The policy of data offload is configurable based on different applications.
2. The other is the ability that letting the edge talks to the other edges as well as the remote data center. In some use cases, the data in one edge can NOT address the application's requirements, we need to collect the data from different edges or send the data to the remote data center. 

From the MEC deployment perspective,  the blueprint consists of three layers.

• IaaS Layer     Connected Vehicle Blueprint can be deployed on community hardware, virtual machine as well as the container.   Both the Arm and x86 platforms are BOTH well supported.
• PaaS Layer   Tars is the microservice framework of Connected Vehicle Blueprint. Tars can provide high-performance RPC calls, deploy microservice in larger scale-out scenarios efficiently, provide easy-to-use service management features.
• SaaS Layer   The latest v2x application depicted in the foregoing use case perspective.

Connect Vehicle Blueprint

For Integrated Edge Cloud Blueprint,  

Leader's Statements

" Open Source is Tencent's core strategy. Tencent, as a platinum member and board of Linux Foundation, continuously promotes network innovation from application perspectives. We believe that application-drive-network will bring tremendous benefits to our customers and stakeholders. After the Tars project in 2018 and recent Akraino blueprints, Tencent will contribute new open-source Foundation and projects in the future. Welcome more Linux member companies get involved!"  

• Xin Liu, General Manager of Future Network Lab, Tencent

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