5GNetMobil - 5G Solutions for the connected Mobility of the Future
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Contact: Stefan Köpsell
Description
Latest developments in direction of autonomous driving will improve traffic safety and reduce energy consumption of vehicles and consequently reduction in CO2-emission. Available data of vehicular sensors are restricted. Radar and camera sensor are only able to detect objects in its direct vicinity. Tactile connected vehicles are able to conduct cooperate manoeuvre and coordinated driving and therefore are able to look ahead. One use-case is the platooning of lorries. The lorries will drive very close to each other and save energy. Furthermore, can the connection of different vehicles and infrastructure, such as cameras and street lights, improve the traffic flow, reduce traffic jams and risk of accidents.
Therefore the main goal of the project is to develop the complete communication architecture for tactile connected driving. To reach this goal the development of technical solutions for the fifth generation (5G) mobile radio networks will be realized. To validate the developed solutions and concepts simulations, system modelling and demonstrations in realistic scenarios will be conducted.
The overall vision of the project is to improve safety, reduce emission, improve traffic efficiency and comfort for drivers as well as passengers. This goals requires a reliable, secure and robust communications that enable real-time control. Despite all the improvements tactile driving will bring, it holds high requirements on the communication technologies, regarding latency, real-time and throughput. An additional challenge poses security and privacy. Concerns about new risk attributable to communication between vehicles, for instance tracking and maliciously provoked accidents will be also addressed.
The Chair of Privacy and Data Security at TU Dresden will focus on confidentiality and data protection, low-latency crypto-protocols and robustness of the platform. Regarding confidentiality and data protection the goal is to protect the communication content and also to undertake counter measures of tracking. Furthermore, low-latency protocols and cipher will be researched. Agile Mobile Edge Clouds (AMECs) and software-defined Networks (SDN) will play an important role in the NetMobil-Platform. Our goal is to look deeper into this systems and research possible risks and if feasible define possible attack vectors and mitigation techniques.
The 5GNetMobil project is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with in the German research program “IKT 2020 – Research for Innovation”.