A Novel Architecture for Retrieving Context Aware Information in a P2P Based Vehicle Communications Paradigm

Resumo

New services implemented in new generation cars need communication capabilities to connect with the surrounding environment. Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications are the two main objectives in networks applied to road transport. One of the main services which requires such infrastructure is the provision of location based information to the driver. Although this problem has been previously studied, an interest arises in adapting this information according to the vehicle’s or driver’s profile. This requires of a special management of information in order to send only interesting advertisement items to the driver. In the present paper, an architecture which solves both V2V and V2I network requirements and which includes an integral processing of information regarding to the driver’s profile is presented. A Peer to Peer (P2P) paradigm, based on cellular networks, is used to create a high level communication architecture. An ontology model has been used to manage and infer the information regarding to the car’s context. Both the road and vehicle sides have been implemented in our prototype, which includes a well equipped sensorized vehicle with a software for testing our design.