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Title

Sociotelematics: leveraging interaction-relationships in developing telematics systems to support cooperative convoys

Author(s)

Kabir, Muhammad Ashad;  Han, Jun;  Colman, Alan;  Yu, Jian

Abstract

In a cooperative convoy, a vehicle interacts with other vehicles, service providers and infrastructure systems to make the travel safe and convenient. Through these interactions a vehicle can share its domain-specific information - acquired from service providers and infrastructure - with other vehicles in the convoy. Such interactions are subject to defined agreements and constraints between the entities (i.e., vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to service providers, and so on), which may need to adapt with the changes of requirements. Also a driver may want to automate certain interactions to reduce distraction during driving. A cooperative convoy telematics system should support collaboration (i.e., allow drivers to share specific travel information) and coordination, and be able to cope with the changes. In this paper, we address these issues and demonstrate how our interaction-relationship modeling technique can be exploited to develop a telematics system provides such flexibility. This system allows interactions and coordination preferences explicitly specified and updated to cope with the changes. In particular, our service oriented implementation enhances flexibility and adaptability of the system making it easily deployable and changeable. We have implemented a prototype based on a client-server architecture where the client application is developed for Android and the server is running on the Amazon cloud. The system's performance and resource consumption were evaluated using real-life experiments.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2012) and the 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2012) (UIC-ATC 2012), Fukuoka, Japan, 04-07 September 2012 / Bernady O. Apduhan, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Tadashi Dohi, Kenji Ishida, Laurence T. Yang and Jianhua Ma (eds.), pp. 40-47

Publication year

2012

Keyword(s)

Android applications;  Automotive telematics;  Collaboration;  Cooperative convoy;  Interaction-relationships

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

9781467330848, 1467330841

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/UIC-ATC.2012.70

Copyright

Copyright © 2012 IEEE.

Additional information

The authors acknowledge support from the Commonwealth of Australia, through the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC).

Peer reviewed