Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications in vehicular networks
Date
2012-02
Authors
Booysen, Marthinus J.
Gilmore, J. S.
Zeadally, Sherali
Van Rooyen, Gert-Jan
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Publisher
Korea Society of Internet Information (KSII)
Abstract
To address the need for autonomous control of remote and distributed mobile systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are rapidly gaining attention from both academia and industry. M2M communications have recently been deployed in smart grid, home networking, health care, and vehicular networking environments. This paper focuses on M2M communications in the vehicular networking context and investigates areas where M2M principles can improve vehicular networking. Since connected vehicles are essentially a network of machines that are communicating, preferably autonomously, vehicular networks can benefit a lot from M2M communications support. The M2M paradigm enhances vehicular networking by supporting large-scale deployment of devices, cross-platform networking, autonomous monitoring and control, visualization of the system and measurements, and security. We also present some of the challenges that still need to be addressed to fully enable M2M support in the vehicular networking environment. Of these, component standardization and data security management are considered to be the most significant challenges.
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Keywords
Vehicular ad-hoc NETwork (VANET), Machine-to-machine (M2M), Protocols, Networking, Security, Mobile communication systems, Wireless communication systems
Citation
Booysen, M. J., Gilmore, J. S., Zeadally, S. & Van Rooyen, G-J. 2012. Machine-to-machine communications in vehicular networks, KSII Transactions on internet and informatin systems, 6(2), 529-546, doi.10.3837/tiss.2012.02.005.