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Wireless traffic Safety network between Cars (WiSafeCar)

Led by Prof. Dr. Pascal Bouvry
Project duration: 01/07/2009 – 01/12/2011
Funding source(s): EUREKA -CELTIC

Partners (external):

  • CRP-HT (Luxembourg)
  • Synergiums (Luxembourg)
  • Ubistream (Luxembourg)
  • Mobisoft (Finland)
  • VTT (Finland)
  • Infotripla (Finland)
  • Taipal Telematics (Finland)
  • Sunit (Finland)
  • EADS Defence and Security (France)
  • France Telecom/Orange Labs (France)
  • LASMEA Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand (France)
  • Trialog, Paul Verlaine University of Metz (France)
  • Etra I+D (Spain)
  • Moviquity (Spain)
  • Quobis Networks (Spain)
  • Galatasaray University (Turkey)
  • Ford Otossan (Turkey)

The aim is to establish a reliable and efficient data management system, particularly for a wireless traffic service platform consisting of different wireless access technologies, by applying secure content-centric networking technique. A former project, CARLINK, developed an intelligent wireless traffic service platform improving traffic safety, reducing traffic accidents and providing new types of vehicular services. In CARLINK, both proactive and reactive real-time data sharing services between cars or car and infrastructure were created by combining different wireless access technologies. It was realized in CARLINK and also in some other related projects that such platform should have some way to protect and authenticate data in order to provide reliable services in open wireless vehicular communication environment. The other thing realized was that data transmission may be optimized for such vehicular services by taking advantage of broadcast/multicast and adding intelligent data handling methods. WiSafeCar also focuses particularily on Vehicular Sensor Network architecture research, where the adhoc network is connected to a wireless network operated by a telecommunication/service provider to combine non-valuable individual sensed data and extract from them effective feedbacks about the situation of the road in a geographical area. Thus, WiSafeCar focuses on 1) a media-independent data management/forwarding scheme that optimizes data flow, efficiently handles data based on its content and thus avoids multiple transmissions of the same content over limited wireless links, 2) special VSN architecture to extract effective feedbacks from large amount of individual sensed data, 3) a light-weight and real-time security countermeasure at architecture level which enables content-centric networking and
assures that the contents of all incoming packets are trustworthy and are what the node is willing to have. WiSafeCar will also analyze applicability of these solutions to a highspeed vehicular environment where network topologies keep changing and nodes may not have prior knowledge of each other until they meet. Secure content-centric networking is known to increase efficiency of sharing disseminated information and to assure secure exchange of contents in open environment. WiSafeCar will propose a new way of vehicular networking, and may serve as a reference platform to solve similar problems in existing vehicular networks.