Vehicle Witnesses as a Service: Leveraging Vehicles as Witnesses on the Road in VANET Clouds

Abstract—Inspired by the dramatic evolution of VANET-clouds, this paper proposes a new VANET-cloud service called VWaaS (Vehicle Witnesses as a Service) in which vehicles moving on the road serve as anonymous witnesses of designated events such as a terrorist attack or a deadly accident. When confronted the events, a group of vehicles with mounted cameras collaborate with roadside stationary camer…