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SUMMARY
Over the few last years, network connectivity support in transportation systems has been one of the main research topics in computer networks engineering. Most of the research has been focused on routing mechanisms and on network mobility support, but there are still many other aspects to cover.
In this context, the CONSEQUENCE project aims to concentrate on two scenarios. The first scenario is network connectivity on trains, where high-speed trains have embedded femtocells that connect to the outside using the most suitable wireless technology at a given time, and that offer secure access to communication to the cellular phones and WiFi devices of the passengers. The second scenario is hybrid sensor and vehicular networks (HSVNs), where vehicle-to-vehicle communications and vehicle-to-roadside sensor communications are combined to obtain information about road state, weather conditions, traffic jams, crashes, potential dangers and so on, in order to improve road safety. This information must be exchanged in a secure, privacy-friendly, reliable way.
The issues in these scenarios can be grouped in four main areas:
- Continuity of service
- Quality of service (QoS) awareness
- Security and identity
- Privacy
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing a bandwidth-efficient service for local information dissemination in sparse to dense roadways
- Measuring the privacy of user profiles in Personalized Information Systems (PIS)
- Developing a metric-based approach to assess risk for “On Cloud” federated identity management
- Producing a dynamic framework with adaptive contention window and multipath routing for video-streaming services over mobile ad hoc networks
- Constructing an event-driven, hybrid identity management approach to privacy enhanced e-Health
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LINK: http://consequence.it.uc3m.es/index.html
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