SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO REGULATE JOINING AND LEAVING A VEHICULAR MICRO CLOUD

System, methods, and embodiments described herein relate to managing a vehicular micro cloud. A disclosed method may include determining join/leave protocols for a vehicular micro cloud and transmitting the join/leave protocols to a local vehicle in a vicinity of the vehicular micro cloud prior to the local vehicle joining the vehicular micro cloud. The join/leave protocols can define at least: 1) a procedure for the local vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud and contribute computing resources to a collaborative micro cloud task, and 2) a protocol for handing an incomplete task when the local vehicle leaves the vehicular micro cloud.