{"title":"On the Characterization of Vehicular Mobility","authors":"Gabriel R. Diniz, F. D. Cunha, A. Loureiro","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132349","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing use of participatory sensing networks on mobile devices, several applications have emerged that influence the mobility of people in a city. These applications also provide data that can help identify patterns in the movement of individuals and vehicles. Time, as well as other factors, tends to influence which regions of the city will have a greater focus on vehicles throughout the day. The goal of this study is to identify vehicular traffic hotspots during the daytime hours so that the population objectives can be identified during that particular time of day and verify if there is any similarity to the other days of the month. This analysis can provide further insights into how traffic works in a particular region and possibly help in solving a traffic-related problem.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123111605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracking Vehicles Equipped with Dedicated Short-Range Communication at Traffic Intersections","authors":"Patrick Emami, L. Elefteriadou, S. Ranka","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132356","url":null,"abstract":"In the near future, the traffic stream will contain both connected and autonomous vehicles with Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) capabilities. With these new technologies, it will become possible to optimize the performance of traffic intersections so that wasted time at red lights and carbon emissions are minimized. Sensors, such as Doppler radar and traffic cameras, can use the data received at Road-Side Units (RSUs) from DSRC-equipped vehicles to assist with tracking and classifying all of the traffic approaching an intersection. In order to fuse information between multiple sensors, each sensor at the traffic intersection needs to compute the uncertainty about its estimate of the state of every vehicle it is tracking. In this work, we evaluate different tracking filters for their ability to estimate the state of a vehicle approaching a traffic intersection based on GPS data received over DSRC. We ran experiments with a vehicle equipped with a Cohda Wireless Mk5 On-Board Unit (OBU) and a high-precision GPS sensor to generate ground-truth data. We present a comparison of the performance of a linear Kalman filter, extended Kalman filter, and particle filter configured with different kinematics models. The effects of measurement bias in the GPS data in DSRC messages is also explored; we observe that without any bias estimation, the performance of the track filters degrades significantly.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"331 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127285782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ying He, F. Yu, Nan Zhao, Hongxi Yin, A. Boukerche
{"title":"Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based Resource Management in Software-Defined and Virtualized Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks","authors":"Ying He, F. Yu, Nan Zhao, Hongxi Yin, A. Boukerche","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132355","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have attracted great interests from both industry and academia. The developments of VANETs are heavily influenced by information and communications technologies, which have fueled a plethora of innovations in various areas, including networking, caching and computing. Nevertheless, these important enabling technologies have traditionally been studied separately in the existing works on vehicular networks. In this paper, we propose an integrated framework that can enable dynamic orchestration of networking, caching and computing resources to improve the performance of next generation vehicular networks. We formulate the resource allocation strategy in this framework as a joint optimization problem, where the gains of not only networking but also caching and computing are taken into consideration in the proposed framework. The complexity of the system is very high when we jointly consider these three technologies. Therefore, we propose a novel deep reinforcement learning approach in this paper. Simulation results with different system parameters are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129860485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilizing Advanced Metering Infrastructure to Build a Public Key Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles","authors":"Mumin Cebe, K. Akkaya","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132359","url":null,"abstract":"component of our lives in the future which will necessitate their integration with the Smart Grid. In addition to public charging stations that are built for EV charging purposes, we are witnessing the development of home microgrids which will serve as a charging station not only for the homeowners but also for the neighborhood. Such home microgrids can be accessible through their smart meters, which makes advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) a viable alternative for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) communications. The security of these communications can be addressed by relying on a public-key infrastructure (PKI) that enables the use of certificates by the participants. However, the management of a PKI is challenging, in particular with respect to certificate revocation lists (CRLs) that need to be maintained at all times not just for the AMI network but also for the large number of EVs that will use it. Real-time access to CRLs is necessary for secure and efficient EV communications which is often needed for charge scheduling purposes. In this paper, we propose exploiting the AMI as an overlay infrastructure that keeps the CRL of EVs in a distributed hash table (DHT) and provide required security services. The proposed approach is evaluated under ns-3 by using IEEE 802.11s and IEEE 802.11p protocols. The results shows that the proposed approach enables the use of smart meters as an overlay infrastructure by significantly reducing the storage requirements for implementing PKI and providing comparable delay performance to that of a local CRL approach.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132467606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yaomin Zhang, Haijun Zhang, Keping Long, Xiaoming Xie, Victor C. M. Leung
{"title":"Resource Allocation in Software Defined Fog Vehicular Networks","authors":"Yaomin Zhang, Haijun Zhang, Keping Long, Xiaoming Xie, Victor C. M. Leung","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132357","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular network is an important application scenario of the fifth generation (5G) mobile communications. Due to the increasing number of vehicles and the users' various requirements, resource allocation problem in vehicular networks becomes more serious and has attracted researchers' attention. In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation in software defined fog vehicular networks where we formulate the problem as a mean-field game (MFG). We present a state space function by considering both interference factors and energy availability. Then the problem can be modeled as a cost minimization with the constraint of state space. Through the mean-field approximation method, we derive the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) and Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equations. A joint finite difference algorithm is proposed to solve the coupled HJB and FPK equations. The numerical results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"405 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116026922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vehicular Clouds Research: What is Missing?","authors":"S. Olariu, Ryan Florin","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132358","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Clouds (VCs) have become an active research topic. However, even a cursory look reveals that the VC literature of recent years is full of papers discussing fanciful VC architectures and services that often seem too good to be true. And many of them are. It seems to us that promoting VC models without any regard to their practical feasibility is apt to discredit the VC concept altogether. Part of the problem stems from the fact that some authors do not seem to be concerned with the obvious fact that moving vehicles' residency times in the VC may, indeed, be very short and, therefore, so is their contribution to the amount of useful work performed. Should a vehicle running a user job leave the VC prematurely, the amount of work performed by that vehicle may be lost, unless special precautions are taken. Such precautionary measures involve either some flavor of checkpointing or some form of redundant job assignment. Both approaches have consequences in terms of overhead and impact job completion time. The success of conventional cloud computing (CC) is attributable to the ability to provide quantifiable functional characteristics such as scalability, reliability and availability. By the same token, if the VCs are to see a widespread adoption, the same quantitative aspects have to be addressed here, too. Feasibility issues in terms of sufficient compute power, communication bandwidth, reliability, availability, and job duration time are all fundamental quantitative aspects of VCs that need to be studied and understood before one can claim with any degree of certainty that they can support the workload for which they are intended. The first contribution of this paper is to make a case for the stringent need to address quantitatively the performance characteristics of VC architectures and proposed services. Our second contribution is to point out directions and challenges facing the VC community.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129865303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"QoS-oriented Management of Multi-vehicle Coordinated Cruise Control in Uncertain Environments","authors":"Arun Adiththan, K. Ravindran","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132345","url":null,"abstract":"Networked embedded software systems incorporate varying degrees of adaptation behavior to sustain their operations with acceptable quality of service (QoS), in the face of hostile external events (e.g., resource outages in a cloud, road slipperiness faced by cars). A highly agile cruise control system of a car, for e.g., may dynamically adjust its controller parameters to generate a higher-than-normal increase in torque when encountering a higher road elevation (relative to a basic controller). With the high complexity of such dynamic adaptive systems, their QoS capability depends on how well they respond to hostile external events in meeting QoS specs. We benchmark the QoS capability of a networked system by a stress-testing a simulation model of the system with artificially injected environment conditions (such as road elevation and message loss). As a case study, we describe the QoS assessment of a multi-vehicle adaptive cruise control system.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134462789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Probabilistic Estimates to Guarantee Reliability in Crossroad VANETs","authors":"Daniel Markert, Philip Parsch, Alejandro Masrur","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132343","url":null,"abstract":"We consider an intelligent crossroad where conventional traffic lights are substituted by a roadside unit (RSU), which synchronizes vehicles at the intersection, minimizing waiting time and energy consumption (by avoiding unnecessary braking and accelerating). Clearly, in this case, a reliable communication needs to be guaranteed between vehicles and the RSU, for which we investigate the design and analysis of specialized Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). It turns out that reliability strongly depends on the number of vehicles at the crossroad, i.e., the more vehicles, the more interference and, hence, the lesser reliability. As a result, to guarantee a desired level of reliability, we first need to estimate the worst-case number of vehicles at the crossroad. However, straightforward, deterministic approaches --- computing the maximum number of vehicles that physically fit into the crossroad's area --- lead to a great amount of pessimism and overdesign. In this paper, we propose using probabilistic estimations for the number of vehicles instead, which greatly reduces the amount of pessimism while still guaranteeing safety. Our approach is based on vehicles' statistical information and allows computing the probability of having a certain number of vehicles at the crossroad in the worst case. We incorporate this probabilistic estimate into the VANET's design and analysis to derive guarantees on reliability. Finally, we illustrate the benefits of the proposed approach by means of a detailed case study and simulations using OMNeT++.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127301240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless Power Transfer","authors":"A. D. D. Sousa, L. Vieira, M. Vieira","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132344","url":null,"abstract":"The field of Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is increasingly being applied to solve several energy issues, like the recharging of mobile devices and the prolonging of the lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things devices. However, there is a gap between the WPT and the wireless network simulations. Thus, the development of complex applications in the intersection of those fields is more difficult than it should be. In this work we describe a WPT simulator focused on resonant coupling transfer and provide it to public access. The simulator works either as a module for the ns-3 network simulator or as a standalone package that can be imported and used by common C++ programs. First, we provide the mathematical modeling and analysis behind the resonant inductive coupling. Next, we evaluate it and compare its output against real data experiments. Many areas can benefit from this work, including energy harvesting, wireless charging, and wireless power and communication systems co-design. In addition, we provide an example of usage of the module.","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115194076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Martín-Escalona, E. Zola, Fabio Perrone, F. Barceló, Sergio Machado
{"title":"Implementation and Performance Assessment of Location-based Routing Protocols for MANETs","authors":"I. Martín-Escalona, E. Zola, Fabio Perrone, F. Barceló, Sergio Machado","doi":"10.1145/3132340.3132342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3132340.3132342","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile ad-hoc networking is a topic that has caught the interest of the research community for years. Although MANETs were introduced time ago, routing in such difficult environments is still an open issue. Routing protocols have been presented to deal with dynamic route building, including proactive and reactive approaches. The newest proposals are often based on positioning, owing to the clear benefits that this approach offers to overcome the excessive flooding overhead that routing protocols usually introduce. This paper compares the performance of three routing protocols: DYMO, DYMOselfwd and AODV-Line. The first is included for historical reasons, since it was the reference protocol for MANET routing for many years. DYMOselfwd is a novel routing protocols that trades-off the simplicity of DYMO and the scalability of location-based routing protocols. Finally, AODV-Line is chosen as an example of greedy location-based routing protocol. These three protocols have been implemented in OMNET++, a general-purpose event-driven simulation tool freely available for the research community. This paper provides a thorough assessment of the performance achieved by these three protocols under different conditions depending on: 1) the node density (i.e. sparse and dense networks), 2) the mobility pattern (i.e. pedestrian and vehicular nodes) and 3) the payload length (e.g. data coming from sensors wrt. regular data traffic).","PeriodicalId":113404,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129542684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}