{"title":"A SUMO-Based Parking Management Framework for Large-Scale Smart Cities Simulations","authors":"Lara Codecà, J. Erdmann, Jérôme Härri","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628417","url":null,"abstract":"We collectively decided that investing in smart cities, and consequently smart mobility, is the appropriate direction to solve traffic congestion and sustainable growth issues. Among the problems linked to traffic congestion, we find the complexity of efficient multi-modal commuting and the eventual search of a parking spot. Ideally, mobility should be a transparent service for the users and the quest to find parking should not exist in the first place. In order to achieve this goal, we need to study large-scale parking management optimizations. Recently we reached the computational power to simulate and optimize large-scale cities, but problems such as the complexity of the models, the availability of a reliable source of data, and flexible simulation frameworks are still a reality. We present the general-purpose Python Parking Monitoring Library (PyPML) and the mobility simulation framework. We discuss the implementation details, focusing on multi-modal mobility capabilities. We present multiple use-cases to showcase features and highlight why we need large-scale simulations. Finally, we evaluate PyPML performances, and we discuss its evolution.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123911646","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}
Takamasa Higuchi, Gurjashan Singh Pannu, F. Dressler, O. Altintas
{"title":"Content Replication in Vehicular Micro Cloud-based Data Storage: A Mobility-Aware Approach","authors":"Takamasa Higuchi, Gurjashan Singh Pannu, F. Dressler, O. Altintas","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628438","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an intelligent mechanism for a vehicular micro cloud (i.e., a cluster of connected vehicles) to form a regional distributed data storage over V2V networks. Each member vehicle keeps a subset of data contents in their local data storage device, and hands over the contents to other member(s) when leaving the vehicular micro cloud. In order to cope with potential data loss due to failure of content handovers, the vehicular micro cloud creates replica(s) of each data content, and keeps them at different member vehicles. However, even if the system creates multiple replicas, there still remains the risk of losing all of them at once, as vehicles hosting the replicas could move away from the vehicular micro cloud in a short period of time. Such simultaneous failures could frequently occur, since vehicles in the vicinity often have strong correlation in their mobility. To address this issue, our algorithm assigns data replicas to a small subset of member vehicles, whose future mobility is not expected to be strongly correlated with each other. Simulation results show that our mobility-aware replica assignment algorithm can significantly improve the reliability of data management without increasing the number of replicas in a vehicular micro cloud.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124644796","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":"Poster: Measurement-based K-Factor Model for Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication","authors":"J. Fischer, R. Koch, G. Kilian","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628327","url":null,"abstract":"In channel models for mobile communications, the K-factor, which specifies the Ricean distribution of the small-scale fading, typically has a fixed value. In the real world, the K-factor varies dependent on the distance and the environment. To counter this discrepancy, we performed channel measurements and developed a novel K-factor model, which allows for a more realistic modeling of the channel characteristics of the vehicle-to-vehicle channel.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133483884","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}
Ala'a Al-Momani, F. Kargl, R. Schmidt, Christoph Bösch
{"title":"iRide: A Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Self-Driving Cabs Service","authors":"Ala'a Al-Momani, F. Kargl, R. Schmidt, Christoph Bösch","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628378","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the popularity Ride Hailing Services (RHSs) have gained recently, they pose significant privacy risks. In particular, a user wishing to benefit from a RHS is required to disclose her precise spatio-temporal data to the RHS provider. The provider is, thus, able to infer and harvest further sensitive information about the user, including, e.g., her social behavior. Previous work on protecting privacy in such a context assumes service provider to not collude with drivers. This assumption does not hold in the scenario of self-driving cabs, as driverless vehicles replace drivers and, thus, the service provider has to control and collude with her fleet. In this paper, we tackle the open issue of service provider colluding with her fleet by analyzing the scenario of self-driving cab services. We present iRide, a privacy-preserving architecture for self-driving cab service that relies on Intel SGX to provide strong privacy guarantees. iRide maintains the convenience of the functionality while offering strong privacy guarantees, that is, we do not introduce or rely on trade-offs between functionality and privacy. The introduced overhead in iRide design is relatively small and rather acceptable under practical aspects. To our best knowledge, this is the first work that tackles privacy protection in self-driving cab services.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124577875","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}
Florian Jomrich, Josef Schmid, Steffen Knapp, A. Höß, R. Steinmetz, Björn Schuller
{"title":"Analysing communication requirements for crowd sourced backend generation of HD Maps used in automated driving","authors":"Florian Jomrich, Josef Schmid, Steffen Knapp, A. Höß, R. Steinmetz, Björn Schuller","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628335","url":null,"abstract":"Highly automated vehicles rely on high-definition maps to ensure both safety and comfort of their passengers while driving. The maps provide a centimetre-accurate representation of the surrounding infrastructure to the car and ease tasks like localisation and object recognition by providing comparable reference material. Maintaining the maps with updates for the current traffic situation (e.g.traffic jams or construction work) is a challenging task. In the German government-funded research project Cooperative Highly Automated Driving (Ko-HAF) it is investigated to what extend vehicle sensors can be used to update these kinds of maps. In this work we present our obtained results and investigate the requirements for the cellular network infrastructure required for highly automated driving. To the best of our knowledge this work is one of the first that provides this correlation between data requirements and network infrastructure capabilities.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"8 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126011610","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}
Chao Chen, Sang Woo Lee, T. Watson, C. Maple, Yi Lu
{"title":"ATHENA: A Pagerank-based Scheme to Solve the Thundering Herd in Authentication","authors":"Chao Chen, Sang Woo Lee, T. Watson, C. Maple, Yi Lu","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628353","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicles in intelligent transport systems (ITS) react to an emergency situation by broadcasting critical messages like Decentralized Environmental Notification Messages (DENMs). A digital signature is attached to each message to secure the integrity of communication, and this message is inoperative until the authentication completes. This creates a challenge for vehicles to verify massive messages in some scenarios where it could incur the thundering herd in authentication, if there is a critical situation happening in heavy road traffic. To address this problem, we propose ATHENA, a pagerank-based scheme to solve the thundering herd in ITS authentication that utilises the transmission of messages and pagerank algorithm to rank the broadcasting vehicles. Simulation results show the efficiency of ATHENA and the effectiveness of performance enhancements compared with others.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"4174 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127568575","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}
Christian Vaas, M. Khodaei, Panos Papadimitratos, I. Martinovic
{"title":"Nowhere to hide? Mix-Zones for Private Pseudonym Change using Chaff Vehicles","authors":"Christian Vaas, M. Khodaei, Panos Papadimitratos, I. Martinovic","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628449","url":null,"abstract":"In vehicular communication systems, cooperative awareness messages provide contextual information required for transportation safety and efficiency applications. However, without the appropriate design, these messages introduce a new attack vector to compromise passenger privacy. The use of ephemeral credentials – pseudonyms – was therefore proposed, essentially to split a journey into unlinkable segments. To protect segment transitions, encrypted mix-zones provide regions where vehicles can covertly change their pseudonyms. While previous work focused on the placement, shape, and protocols for mix-zones, attacks that correlate vehicles entering and existing these zones still remain a problem. Furthermore, existing schemes have only considered homogeneous traffic, disregarding variations in vehicle density due to differences in driver population, road layout, and time of day. Without realistic experimental results, any conclusion on real-world applicability is precarious. In this paper, we address this challenge and present a novel scheme that works independent of vehicles’ mobility patterns. More precisely, our system generates fictive chaff vehicles when needed and broadcasts their traces, while it remains unobtrusive if sufficiently many vehicles are present. This greatly improves privacy protection in situations with inherently low traffic density, e.g., suburban areas, and during low traffic periods. Our scheme ensure that an external attacker cannot distinguish between real and chaff vehicles, while legitimate vehicles can recognize chaff messages; this is important, because chaff vehicles (and messages) must not affect the operation of safety applications. In our evaluation, we compare our chaff-based approach with an existing cryptographic mix-zone scheme. Our results under realistic traffic conditions show that by introducing fictive vehicles, traffic flow variations can be smoothed and privacy protection can be enhanced up to 76%.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116632006","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":"Poster: Location-based Directional CSMA/CA for Millimeter Wave V2V Communications","authors":"Seungeun Oh, Hyesung Kim, Seong-Lyun Kim","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628456","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate a directional CSMA/CA protocol for mmWave vehicle-to-vehicle communications when location information is given with an observational error. Considering this inaccuracy, we propose a directional CSMA/CA where location-based selective RTS/CTS and beam alignment are applied. Numerical evaluations verify that the proposed algorithm improves packet reception ratio and data rate compared to a directional CSMA/CA that does not utilize the location information.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134530397","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}
Joakim Brorsson, Paul Stankovski Wagner, Martin Hell
{"title":"Guarding the Guards: Accountable Authorities in VANETs","authors":"Joakim Brorsson, Paul Stankovski Wagner, Martin Hell","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628329","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present an approach to gaining increased anonymity from authorities within a VANET. Standardization organizations and researchers working on VANETs recognize privacy as highly important. However, most research focuses on privacy from other vehicles and external attackers, as opposed to privacy from system-administrating authorities. Our proposed solution forces authorities to resolve identities, i.e. de-anonymize vehicles, in public. It thereby creates a public log of identity resolutions and offers end-users a tool with which they can both validate the authorities’ reasons for resolving identities and measure the extent to which such power is exercized.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132951603","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}
Teng Andrea Xu, Florian Adamsky, Ion Turcanu, R. Soua, C. Köbel, T. Engel, A. Baiocchi
{"title":"Poster: Performance Evaluation of an Open-Source Audio-Video Bridging/Time-Sensitive Networking Testbed for Automotive Ethernet","authors":"Teng Andrea Xu, Florian Adamsky, Ion Turcanu, R. Soua, C. Köbel, T. Engel, A. Baiocchi","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2018.8628414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628414","url":null,"abstract":"Automotive Ethernet (AE) is becoming more and more relevant to the automotive industry due to its support of emerging in-car applications, which have high bandwidth demands and stringent requirements in terms of latency and time synchronization. One of the standards under consideration for AE is IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB)/Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) that provides deterministic data link layer and bounded latency to real-time traffic classes. So far, this protocol stack has only been evaluated using either simulations or proprietary and expensive platforms. In this paper, we design a real testbed system for AE using general-purpose single-board computers and conduct experiments to assess the real-time performance of an open-source AVB/TSN implementation. Our preliminary results show that even under heavy load, AVB/TSN can fulfil the latency requirements of AE while keeping a constant latency variation.","PeriodicalId":335017,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129006195","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}