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such as handling freight exchange among each other
in the near distance or to compensate for the outage
of a cloud connection.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The work presented in this paper represents results
by the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) and
Mercedes-Benz AG on the research project ‘Require-
ments and Application of GAIA-X in the Edge-
Device Automobile’ (GAIA-X 4 AGEDA) that is
partly funded by the German Federal Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK
19S22004P). The sole responsibility for the content
lies with the authors.
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