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The imminent deployment of 5G and the rapid development of multi-access edge computing standards are demanding advances in terms of vehicular low latency offloading design and modelling proposals. In this paper we describe the functionalities of a high-level multi-access edge computing orchestrator that arranges location based vehicular edge services by the means of hierarchical dynamic resource management. In this way low latency responses can be guaranteed due to the geo-aware and energy efficient service allocation and dynamic migration. The first steps towards the definition of a vehicle to infrastructure communication specification are also provided. We study the efficiency of our proposal applied to an infotainment case study deployed in the city centre of Alicante, Spain. The simulation results obtained show that latencies perceived by vehicles generally range from optimal to first order sub-optimal scales all over the coverage area and that the presented offloading solution energetically scales with the number of hosts at the edge.

The Internet of Vehicles requires high bandwidth and low latency services to unleash the potential of fully connected vehicles. Thus, the offloading proposals that successfully manage massive real-time service requests from vehicle nodes are needed. In this paper, we analyse the dynamic resource management for intelligent vehicular networks based on Multi-access Edge Computing architecture services. Using a combination of CloudSim and SUMO simulators, we present a case study of infotainment services in the city centre of Alicante, in Spain, that shows a high degree of optimality both in service allocation and migration when considering dense urban environments.

Under the auspices of a DAAD funded educational project, a subproject devoted to different aspects of teaching the Java programming language started several years ago. The initial intention of the subproject was to attract members of the subproject to prepare some teaching materials for teaching essentials of the Java programming language. During the last two years, some advanced Java topics have been selected and appropriate teaching materials have been produced. The available pool of common teaching materials can be used in a wide range of university courses in participating countries. In this paper we share some of the results and experiences collected during the subproject that come from intensive use of the prepared teaching materials for a variety of Java topics in different countries and universities.