车用自组织网络中数据聚合算法综述

具有短距离通信能力的车载设备的改进和短距离微波通信授权频谱的分配推动了智能交通系统应用的发展,促进了车用自组织网络(VANET)的研究。对于VANET上的应用数据分发是各类应用实现的基础,同时数据聚合又是实现数据分发的关键技术。介绍了VANET的概念和网络构架,给出了当前VANET上的一些典型应用;详细阐述了VANET上的数据分发的基本结构,并对数据聚合算法的研究现状进行了详细的分析和比较;最后总结并展望了VANET上的数据聚合在未来一段时间的研究重点。     

车载自组织网络基于簇的协作MAC协议研究

随着无线通信技术的发展,车载自组织网络(Vehicular Ad Hoc Network,VANET)已经成为一个新型的研究领域。针对VANET中车辆行驶的特征以及车辆间安全信息传输严格的时延限制和高可靠性要求,提出了一种基于簇的协作MAC(CCB-MAC)协议用于安全信息的传输。当在广播期间节点没有接收到安全信息时,被选择的辅助节点重传先前侦听到的安全信息到目的节点,并且重传是在未被预留的时隙中进行的,这将不会中断正常的传输。数值分析和仿真结果表明,CCB-MAC明显提高了安全信息传输成功的概率,降低了传输时延和丢包率。     

NCTUns tool for wireless vehicular communication network researches

Several goals such as improving road safety and increasing transport efficiency are being pursued in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Wireless vehicular communication is one technology to achieve these goals. Conducting vehicular experiments on the roads is an approach to studying the effectiveness of wireless vehicular communication. However, such an approach is costly, hard-to-control (repeat), dangerous, and infeasible when many vehicles and people are involved in the field trial. In contrast, the simulation approach does not have these problems. It is a very useful approach and complements the field trial approach. This paper presents NCTUns, an open source integrated simulation platform, for wireless vehicular communication network researches. This tool tightly integrates network and traffic simulations and provides a fast feedback loop between them. Therefore, a simulated vehicle can quickly change its driving behavior such as moving speed and direction when it receives a message from the wireless vehicular communication network. This capability is required by several novel ITS applications such as active collision avoidance systems. In this paper, we present the design, implementation, validation, and performance of this tool.     

An energy-efficient geographic routing protocol design in vehicular ad-hoc network

The combination of vehicles and wireless communication has resulted in a promising future for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The VANET is a kind of network that can be built randomly, quickly and temporarily without any infrastructure. The routing of data in a VANET is a challenging task due to the high dynamics, unstable connection environments and transfer direction limit (real road planning) involved. However, it has been discussed that radio obstacles, as found in urban areas, have a significant negative impact on the performance of location based routing. Therefore, the design of a suitable routing protocol for VANETs is an important issue, especially in regard to inter-vehicle communication applications. This paper proposes a energy-efficient geographic routing algorithm that uses the direction, density and distance between nodes in the crossroad routing strategy, to improve the link stability. We compare the novel scheme, ad hoc on-demand distance vector, and dynamic source routing (DSR) for packet loss rate and average end-to-end delay in VANETs to reduce the power consumptions. The simulation results are obtained which demonstrate the power effectiveness of our proposed routing strategy.     

车载Ad Hoc网络MAC协议研究

在移动自组网中,MAC协议是保证移动终端能够公平有效地共享无线信道所不可缺少的手段.近年来,随着车载通信系统的不断发展和自组网技术日益成熟,如何将二者有机结合成车载自组网已引起业界的极大关注.由于VANET自身的特点,以及其支持的业务应用种类非常丰富,现有自组网的MAC协议并不能直接用于VANET中.在简要介绍Ad Hoc网络中MAC协议的基础上,对VANET的MAC协议研究进展进行了综述,并指出了该领域的发展趋势.     

Automatic tuning of communication protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks using metaheuristics

The emerging field of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) deals with a set of communicating vehicles which are able to spontaneously interconnect without any pre-existing infrastructure. In such kind of networks, it is crucial to make an optimal configuration of the communication protocols previously to the final network deployment. This way, a human designer can obtain an optimal QoS of the network beforehand. The problem we consider in this work lies in configuring the File Transfer protocol Configuration (FTC) with the aim of optimizing the transmission time, the number of lost packets, and the amount of data transferred in realistic VANET scenarios. We face the FTC with five representative state-of-the-art optimization techniques and compare their performance. These algorithms are: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Differential Evolution (DE), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Evolutionary Strategy (ES), and Simulated Annealing (SA). For our tests, two typical environment instances of VANETs for Urban and Highway scenarios have been defined. The experiments using ns- 2 (a well-known realistic VANET simulator) reveal that PSO outperforms all the compared algorithms for both studied VANET instances.     

VANET中流调度与路径选择联合优化的传输策略

由于车辆节点与路边设施的强大存储与计算能力、良好的无线通信能力以及不间断的能量供应，车载自组网（vehicular ad-hoc network，简称VANET）可检测车辆行驶环境的变化，评测危险路况并预警，如前方事故现场预警、交叉路口防碰撞预警等，预估司机的反应时间，为安全驾驶及驾驶体验提供技术支持.但VANET中，数据传输面临无线信道质量不稳定、网络拓扑瞬息万变、无线链路寿命短、带宽受限、通信负载量大等多重挑战.因此，如何将数据及时而可靠地传输到"城市大脑"，已成为一个研究热点.考虑存储成本、丢包惩罚与传输奖励，首先提出了面向VANET的混合流调度策略，为不同优先级的数据流分配传输资源；结合链路状况，接着提出了VANET中混合流调度与路径选择联合优化的数据传输策略，满足了强实时数据流对传输时延的需求，同时提高了弱实时数据流的传输可靠性.大量的仿真实验与性能分析表明，这些策略能够为VANET中数据传输提供QoS保障.     

车联网RSU单元下行流量的性能研究

基于802.11p/WAVE的车联网是一项涉及道路交通、无线通信、自组织系统等多学科综合性的技术领域,车联网中,RSU单元可作为AP,让在行驶的汽车中的人们可以随时随地接入Internet,其中,如何建立RSU单元的下行流量模型是一个关键问题.通过引入车辆密度概率质量函数,分析车联网MAC层车辆通过RSU设备访问Internet的信道竞争情形,提出了适用于高速公路交通场景的RSU单元网络吞吐量模型,并推导出RSU上行及下行流量的性能解析式.针对RSU单元通信范围有限、相邻RSU单元之间可能存在盲区的问题,提出了一种利用同向行驶的车辆协助数据下载的VCoDS方案,以达到提高某时间段RSU的下行流量的目标.仿真实验结果证实,VCoDS方案可有效提高RSU单元的下行流量.     

A collaborative protocol for anonymous reporting in vehicular ad hoc networks

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have emerged to leverage the power of modern communication technologies, applied to both vehicles and infrastructure. Allowing drivers to report traffic accidents and violations through the VANET may lead to substantial improvements in road safety. However, being able to do so anonymously in order to avoid personal and professional repercussions will undoubtedly translate into user acceptance. The main goal of this work is to propose a new collaborative protocol for enforcing anonymity in multi-hop VANETs, closely inspired by the well-known Crowds protocol. In a nutshell, our anonymous-reporting protocol depends on a forwarding probability that determines whether the next forwarding step in message routing is random, for better anonymity, or in accordance with the routing protocol on which our approach builds, for better quality of service (QoS). Different from Crowds, our protocol is specifically conceived for multi-hop lossy wireless networks. Simulations for residential and downtown areas support and quantify the usefulness of our collaborative strategy for better anonymity, when users are willing to pay an eminently reasonable price in QoS.     

RSU-based message authentication for vehicular ad-hoc networks

Message authentication that ensures a message is genuine and verifies the source of the sender is a key issue in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Because messages may provide life-critical traffic information or emergency messages transmitted by unfamiliar sources. Because the vehicle in a VANET transmits messages in real-time in a high-mobility environment, traditional PKI security schemes are not suitable for VANET. The use of roadside units (RSUs) makes message authentication in VANET easy, but it also causes two problems and needed to be solved: how to authenticate messages transmitted between two different RSU ranges, and how to hand off messages for the vehicles moving across different RSU communication ranges. This paper proposes a comprehensive message authentication scheme that enables the message authentication within intra and between inter RSU ranges and hand-off between different RSUs. The proposed scheme balances the overhead for computation and communication with security against attacks. Efficiency analysis and comparison with related works demonstrate that the proposed scheme is a superior message authentication method for VANET.     

Restricted usage of anonymous credentials in vehicular ad hoc networks for misbehavior detection

The automobile industry is entering a new era of digitalization with major impact on human mobility and transportation infrastructures. A result of such a convergence between the automobile and information technologies is vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), a type of mobile ad hoc networks that has recently enjoyed a lot of attention from the industry, the research community, lawmakers and privacy activists. In VANET, vehicles frequently broadcast various types of messages, including location data. This enables innovative applications and improvements in safety and driving experience. As messages broadcasted in the VANET are digitally signed and the receiver must be able to verify the sender’s authentication and message integrity, there is a need to ensure broadcast authentication and protect driver’s anonymity. However, communication in VANETs takes place with high frequency, and malicious vehicles can hide behind anonymity in order to duplicate packets and get advantage over other vehicles in the network. Indeed, state-of-the-art approaches to privacy-preserving messages broadcast in the VANET typically ensure that each vehicle has a number of pseudonymous certificates that are changed regularly in order to thwart an automated tracing of its activities. However, the possibility of uncontrolled simultaneous use of pseudonyms by misbehaving vehicles remain unaddressed. This paper proposes a set of anonymous credential system based protocols for VANET that enables the detection and limitation of pseudonym/credential overspending. The revocation of the misbehaving vehicle can be also achieved through the proposed solutions. With the prototypical implementation of the proposed protocols, it has been shown that the successful detection of fraud, i.e., pseudonyms overspending and the subsequent revocation of credentials are possible in VANET.     

Privacy-preserving authentication framework using bloom filter for secure vehicular communications

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are the future of the intelligent transportation systems (ITS), which aim to improve traffic safety. The received message in VANETs can contain the malicious content that may affect the entire network; hence, these networks are more prone to such attacks. Thus, security is a major consideration before the deployment of such network. In this paper, a secure privacy-preserving authentication framework is proposed, which employs the use of pseudonyms for anonymous communication. A new digital signature scheme and aggregate verification scheme are designed for vehicular communications, and the ID-based signature scheme is used for vehicle-to-RSU communication. The multiple authorities are involved in revealing the identity of the vehicle in case of revocation. The signature verification scheme is improved by the use of bloom filters, and the results achieved by the proposed scheme have been implemented on a simulated environment.     

The design of speedy seamless safe messaging mechanism in VANET

With the popularity of automobile, traffic safety and our lives are inseparable. In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), the properties authenticity, privacy and traceability have already been considered in many previous researches. Many automotive systems combine their applications with smart life. In this paper, a speedy seamless safe (3-S) messaging mechanism for roadside-to-vehicle authentication and vehicle-to-vehicle communication is proposed. In addition to the essential requirements mentioned above, 3-S messaging mechanism is designed to reduce the computation cost and provide the seamless communication when the vehicle crosses the various regions. With better performance and availability, our scheme can be applied in various VANET applications, especially in safety systems to provide the drivers active safety.     

An advanced security scheme based on clustering and key distribution in vehicular ad-hoc networks

Preservation of security is an essential requirement in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) as vehicular communication is vulnerable to attacks. Attackers may exploit VANETs to send bogus information to deceive other vehicles which leads to serious issues. In this paper, we describe an advanced Secure scheme based on Clustering and Key Distribution (SCKD) among members and cluster-heads in VANET. The SCKD is a coordination based algorithm in which nodes are located within different clusters and their cluster heads are chosen from trusty nodes. For a secure end-to-end communication, our scheme deploys the proxy signature, blind proxy signature, hashed message authentication code, and symmetric cryptography. Results show that our scheme preserves security requirements including authentication, confidentiality, data-integrity, non-repudiation, and unforgeability. Since the cost and time computation of key generation and distribution decreases by SCKD compared with other algorithms, our algorithm will be applicable for VANETs.     

Multiple hypothesis tracking for data association in vehicular networks

The introduction of Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems of the future brings new opportunities and new challenges into the automotive scene. Vehicular communications broaden the information spectrum that is available to each vehicle, allowing the enhancement of existing applications and the introduction of new ones. Undoubtedly, the impact of this new technology in transportation safety, efficiency and infotainment is expected to be very important.A significant part of research in vehicular networks (VANETs) is dedicated to networking issues like routing and safety. However, perception systems which until now were based on onboard sensors only, need to incorporate the wirelessly received information in order to extend the situation awareness of the vehicle and the driver. This paper presents an algorithm for associating targets tracked from an onboard radar sensor with the position and motion data received from the VANET. The core of the algorithm is a track oriented multiple hypothesis tracker that is modified for incorporating information included in VANET messages. The algorithm is tested in real scenarios using two experimental vehicles and then compared with two other algorithmic approaches. One is using a simpler single hypothesis algorithm for association of VANET messages and the second is using only the onboard sensors for environment perception. As a result, the advantages of the Multiple Hypothesis Algorithm regarding association performance and the added value of wireless information in the perception system are highlighted.     

MoVES: A framework for parallel and distributed simulation of wireless vehicular ad hoc networks

In this paper, we illustrate a Mobile Wireless Vehicular Environment Simulation (MoVES) framework for the parallel and distributed simulation of vehicular wireless ad hoc networks (VANETs). The proposed framework supports extensible, module-based and layered modeling, and scalable, accurate and efficient simulation of vehicular scenarios integrated with wireless communication and mobile services/applications. The vehicular layer includes models for vehicles, synthetic and trace-driven mobility, driver behavior, GPS-based street maps, intersection policies and traffic lights. The wireless communication layer currently includes models for physical propagation, and a network protocol stack including IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control, up to the Application layer. MoVES provides a platform for microscopic modeling and simulation-based analysis of wireless vehicular scenarios and communication-based services and applications, like Intelligent Transportation Systems, communication-based monitoring/control and info-mobility services. The framework includes design solutions for scalable, accurate and efficient parallel and distributed simulation of complex, vehicular communication scenarios executed over cost-effective, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation architectures. Dynamic model partition and adaptation-based load balancing solutions have been designed by exploiting common assumptions and model characteristics, in a user-transparent way. Test-bed performance evaluation for realistic scenarios has shown the effectiveness of MoVES in terms of simulation efficiency, scalability, adaptation and simulation accuracy.     

车载自组织网络中的数据分发机制

车载自组织网络（vehicular ad-hoc network,简称VANET）作为一种新型的移动自组织网络,应用前景广阔.鉴于长距离数据分发机制是支撑VANET应用的一个不可或缺的机制,提出了一种VANET下路边单元（roadsideunit,简称RSU）辅助的数据分发机制Ara,并在不同的交通场景下对其性能进行了评估.实验结果表明,即使在有RSU出现故障的情况下,Ara也可以保证较高的数据到达率、较小的延迟和较低的消息开销.同时,通过建立分析模型对Ara的数据传递延迟进行了理论分析.该分析模型建立在车辆的微观流模型之上,可以推导出不同RSU 部署场景下的数据传递延迟.模拟实验结果验证了模型的正确性,因此该分析模型可以对Ara数据传递的性能进行预测.     

Presenting a traffic management and control system in driver assistance form based on vehicular networks

Vehicular Networks is considered a major step in the field of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). In this technology, some equipment will be installed on vehicles and special places at roadsides which will enable the wireless communication between vehicles with each other and will provide the communication between the vehicles and roadside equipment. One of the ITS application is Traffic monitoring system. Such system enables accessing traffic videos by traffic monitoring centers to make traffic decision. However, providing traffic video for the vehicles can be appealing. This paper addresses a new application in vehicular networks and ITS which can provide this videos for drivers in a city. Each driver request timely traffic video of a location from a web server and the web server forward this request to a stream management server. This server based on current location of the requester vehicle, its speed and its direction calculates appropriate video chunks for each RSU along vehicle destination. This study aims to present a system which can bring a high accessibility for content and can provide it with an appropriate bandwidth and quality for vehicles. Due to the scalability and bandwidth limitations for its content and streaming, vehicular networks are used in this system.     

一种基于粗糙集理论的VANET接入方法

随着车载自组网(VANET)的快速发展和广泛应用,从接入角度保证车辆可信的问题得到了人们越来越多的关注。针对粗糙集理论适于处理不确定性信息的特点,本文提出了一种基于粗糙集理论的VANET接入方法。将VA-NET与移动可信模块(MTM)相结合,使用MTM采集车辆的可信属性信息,以便于做出接入决策。实验结果验证了方法的有效性与实用性。     

Guest Editorial on Vehicular Networking Protocols

Vehicular communications is receiving an increased interest by the research community both from industry and academia. These technologies known as Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) include vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and can be based on various communications technologies. This special issue on Vehicular Networking Protocols technologies highlights new trends on networking protocols and their issues, further focusing on the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer and Physical (PHY) layer challenges. It also underlines on algorithms and protocols for data aggregation and group-based networking in vehicular networks.