Content Sharing in Pedestrian-based Micro Clouds

The continuous growth of the urban population and the high development and maintenance costs of infrastructure-based approaches make it necessary the utilization of distributed schemes. Among distributed systems, there is an increasing interest in edge cloud models, both for vehicular and pedestrian applications. In this paper, we developed a distributed application based on the micro cloud concept formulated in the field of vehicular edge computing for spreading content items in an indoor pedestrian environment. Results highlight how it is possible to reach both 100% content items spread and up to 66% reduction over channel collisions.