Inter-vehicle Communication: Quo Vadis. Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 13392

"Inter-Vehicular Communication - Quo Vadis?". With this question in mind, leading experts in the field of vehicular networking met in Dagstuhl to discuss the current state of the art and, most importantly, the open challenges in R&D from both an scientific and an industry point of view. After more than a decade of research on vehicular networks, the experts very seriously asked the question whether all of the initial research issues had been solved so far. It turned out that the perspective changed in the last few years, mainly thanks to the ongoing field operational tests in Europe and the U.S. The results point to new research directions and new challenges that need to be solved for a second generation of vehicular networking applications and protocols. In four working groups, the experts studied these new challenges and derived recommendations that are also very helpful for the respective funding organizations

Vehicular networks on two Madrid highways

Proceeding of: 2014 Eleventh Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), Singapore, 30 June - 03 July, 2014There is a growing need for vehicular mobility datasets that can be employed in the simulative evaluation of protocols and architectures designed for upcoming vehicular networks. Such datasets should be realistic, publicly available, and heterogeneous, i.e., they should capture varied traffic conditions. In this paper, we contribute to the ongoing effort to define such mobility scenarios by introducing a novel set of traces for vehicular network simulation. Our traces are derived from high-resolution real-world traffic counts, and describe the road traffic on two highways around Madrid, Spain, at several hours of different working days. We provide a thorough discussion of the real-world data underlying our study, and of the synthetic trace generation process. Finally, we assess the potential impact of our dataset on networking studies, by characterizing the connectivity of vehicular networks built on the different traces. Our results underscore the dramatic impact that relatively small communication range variations have on the network. Also, they unveil previously unknown temporal dynamics of the topology of highway vehicular networks, and identify their causes.The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement n.630211. Funding for D. Naboulsi was provided by a grant from Rhône-Alpes Region.Publicad

Protocolo adaptativo de disseminação de dados para aplicações de segurança no trânsito em rodovias

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Automação e Sistemas, Florianópolis, 2013.As VANETs (Vehicular Ad hoc Networks) são formadas por sistemas de comunicação entre veículos que fazem parte de um ambiente de trânsito e têm seus nós compostos por veículos e por equipamentos fixos que estão presentes ao longo das vias. Estas redes objetivam proporcionar conforto e segurança aos passageiros, por meio de informações sobre acidentes na pista, condição da estrada e aplicações de entretenimento. A disponibilidade e o tempo em que as mensagens trafegam nesta rede são essenciais para tais aplicações. Por isso, as VANETs requerem métodos eficientes e confiáveis para a comunicação de dados. Para prover confiabilidade à difusão de dados em redes veiculares deve-se transpassar alguns problemas como, por exemplo, broadcast storm, nós ocultos, alta colisões de pacotes, redundância de informação, entre outros. Muitos destes problemas persistem em estudos realizados anteriormente. Este trabalho tem por objetivo prover confiabilidade na disseminação de mensagens em aplicações voltadas a segurança no trânsito por meio de um protocolo adaptativo e eficiente. O protocolo proposto é adaptativo pois adapta o período entre transmissões de mensagens de controle de acordo com a densidade da rodovia, a fim de diminuir o número de mensagens geradas na rede. Também visa ser eficiente pois diminui a quantidade de colisões frente a quantidade de pacotes gerados na rede, oferece menor atraso no envio das mensagens e diminui a quantidade de retransmissões em cenários com mais de um alerta na rede. O trabalho envolveu (I) a definição do protocolo proposto, a integração e o uso deste pela aplicação, (II) a implementação de uma aplicação para rodovias com simuladores de redes e de tráfego bidirecionalmente acoplados, (III) avaliação da confiabilidade do protocolo proposto e dos impactos decorrentes do uso do protocolo na aplicação de disseminação de alertas por meio de simulações realizadas em diferentes cenários de densidade de veículos, e (IV) as análises dos resultados experimentais obtidos. Os resultados dos experimentos comprovam que o protocolo proposto, para os cenários simulados é 100 % confiável e que os impactos decorrentes do seu uso não prejudicam as funcionalidades da aplicação, comprovando a eficiência do protocolo.Abstract : The VANETs (Vehicular Ad hoc Networks) are formed by communication systems among vehicles which are part of the same traffic environment. Their nodes are composed of vehicles and fixed equipment present along the traffic ways. The aim of these networks is to provide comfort and safety to passengers through information about accidents on the road, road conditions and entertainment applications. The availability and the time span in which these messages move through the network are essential for these applications. Consequently, the VANETs require eficient and reliable methods for data communication. To ensure that data transmission in vehicular networks is reliable certain problems must be overcome, such as broadcast storm, hidden nodes, high collision of packages, information redundancy, among others. Many of these problems persist in previous studies. Thus, this work aims at providing, through an adaptive and eficient protocol, reliability to message transmission in applications targeted at traffic safety. The proposed protocol is adaptive as it adapts the time span between the transmissions of messages according to the road density, in order to decrease the number of messages generated in the network. It also aims at efficiency as it decreases the amount of collisions due to the number of packages generated in the network, presents less delay in message transmission and decreases the amount of retransmissions in scenarios with more than one alert in the network. This research involved (I) the definition of the proposed protocol, its integration and use by the application, (II) the implementation of an application for motorways with network and traffic simulators directionally attached, (III) evaluation of the reliability of the proposed protocol and of the impacts resulting from the use of the protocol in the application of spread of alerts through simulations carried out in diverse scenarios of vehicle density, (IV) the analyses of the experimental results. These results prove that the proposed protocol is 100 % reliable for simulated scenarios and that the impacts produced by its use do not harm the functionalities of the application, proving the eficiency of the protocol