Security and cooperation in vehicular delay tolerant network and its applications

道路安全和效率是世界范围内的主要问题。因此，探索提高道路安全和效率的新技术至关重要。这项拟议的研究计划旨在调查新兴的车辆通信网络(也称为车辆自组织网络(VANETs))作为提高道路安全和效率的一种有前途的方法的适用性。在VANET中，车辆配备了无线通信、定位和计算设备，通过车辆之间的通信(如紧急制动警报)实现了各种车辆应用。不幸的是，VANET面临着各种安全威胁和隐私问题，这将危及公共安全，并成为接受这种新技术的主要障碍。因此，安全对VANET的成功至关重要，因此也是市场就绪的VANET的先决条件。在过去，这方面的研究没有得到足够的重视，特别是在车辆之间没有端到端网络连接的车辆延迟容忍网络(DTN)中的安全性。由于其独特的特点，如网络节点(或车辆)的高速移动性导致的间歇性连接、资源稀缺以及网络节点的极大数量，传统的方法可能不适合于这样的车载DTN。拟议的研究旨在解决车载DTN中的安全和隐私问题，而这些问题在以前的研究报告中没有考虑到。预计这项研究计划将有助于发现新的想法和开发创新的汽车产品和服务。因此，可以设计出新的商业模式和收入来源，以促进加拿大陷入困境的汽车行业的增长和促进。这项研究还将导致HQP在信息安全和车载通信技术方面的培训，这将为加拿大的通信、汽车和信息安全行业做出巨大贡献。

Road safety and efficiency are major concerns worldwide. Therefore, it is crucial to explore new techniques to improve road safety and efficiency. The proposed research program aims to investigate the applicability of emerging vehicular communication networks, also known as vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), as a promising approach to increasing road safety and efficiency. In VANETs, vehicles are equipped with wireless communication, positioning and computation devices with a variety of vehicle applications enabled by communication between vehicles such as emergency braking warning. Unfortunately, VANETs have faced various security threats and privacy concerns which would jeopardize public safety and become the main barrier to the acceptance of such a new technology. As a result, security is crucial to success of VANETs, and so is thereby a prerequisite for market-ready VANETs. In the past, insufficient attention has been paid to this area of research, in particular security in vehicular delay tolerant networks (DTNs), where end-to-end network connectivity between vehicles is not available. Traditional approaches may not be suitable in such a vehicular DTN due to its unique characteristics, such as intermittent connectivity due to high-speed mobility of the network node (or vehicle), resource scarcity, and the extremely large amount of network nodes. The proposed research is envisioned to solve the security and privacy issues in vehicular DTNs, which have not been taken into consideration in previously reported studies. It is expected that this research program will contribute to the discovering of new ideas and the development of innovative automotive products and services. As a result, new business models and revenue streams can be devised to foster growth and promote the troubled automobile industry in Canada. The research will also lead to HQP training in information security and vehicular communication techniques, which will greatly contribute to the Canadian communication, automobile and information security industries.