Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have emerged as a new application scenario that is envisioned to revolutionize the human driving experiences, optimize traffic flow control systems, etc. Addressing security and privacy issues as the prerequisite of VANETs' development must be emphasized. To avoid any possible malicious attack and resource abuse, employing a digital signature scheme is widely recognized as the most effective approach for VANETs to achieve authentication, integrity, and validity. However, when the number of signatures received by a vehicle becomes large, a scalability problem emerges immediately, where a vehicle could be difficult to sequentially verify each received signature within 100-300 ms interval in accordance with the current Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) protocol. In addition, there are still some unsolved attacks in VANETs such as Denial of Service (Dos) attacks, which are not well addressed and waiting for us to solve. In this thesis, we propose the following solutions to address the above mentioned security related issues. First of all, to address the scalability issues, we introduce a novel roadside unit (RSU) aided message authentication scheme, named RAISE, which makes RSUs responsible for verifying the authenticity of messages sent from vehicles and for notifying the results back to vehicles. In addition, RAISE adopts the k-anonymity property for preserving user privacy, where a message cannot be associated with a common vehicle. Secondly, we further consider the situation that RSUs may not cover all the busy streets of a city or a highway in some situations, for example, at the beginning of a VANETs' deployment period, or due to the physical damage of some RSUs, or simply for economic considerations. Under these circumstances, we further propose an efficient identity-based batch signature verification scheme for vehicular communications. The proposed scheme can make vehicles verify a batch of signatures once instead of one after another, and thus it efficiently increases vehicles' message verification speed. In addition, our scheme achieves conditional privacy: a distinct pseudo identity is generated along with each message, and a trust authority can trace a vehicle's real identity from its pseudo identity. In order to find invalid signatures in a batch of signatures, we adopt group testing technique which can find invalid signatures efficiently. Lastly, we identify a DoS attack, called signature jamming attack (SJA), which could easily happen and possibly cause a profound vicious impact on the normal operations of a VANET, yet has not been well addressed in the literature. The SJA can be simply launched at an attacker by flooding a significant number of messages with invalid signatures that jam the surrounding vehicles and prevent them from timely verifying regular and legitimate messages. To countermeasure the SJA, we introduces a hash-based puzzle scheme, which serves as a light-weight filter for excluding likely false signatures before they go through relatively lengthy signature verification process. To further minimize the vicious effect of SJA, we introduce a hash recommendation mechanism, which enables vehicles to share their information so as to more efficiently thwart the SJA. For each research solution, detailed analysis in terms of computational time, and transmission overhead, privacy preservation are performed to validate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed schemes.

Video dissemination over Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is an attractive technology which supports many novel applications. Hence, the merit of this thesis has twofold. Firstly, we evaluate and compare three routing techniques and two error resilience techniques. We select a sender-based routing technique called SUV and compare it with the other two selected receiver-based routing techniques named REACT-DIS and CDS. The results, more specifically, show that the receiver-based solutions outperform the sender-based solution. In addition, only CDS method fulfils the general quality requirements as it is the best that reduces redundancy packets and covers the whole topology. The results also indicate that the video coding scheme, Interleaving, can fix the multiple consecutive packet losses and guarantee reliable video qualities over VANETs. Network Coding, however, fails to provide satisfactory video quality for urban scenarios. This study next combines the selected receiver based routing techniques and the two error resilience techniques. We find the best combination is Interleaving over CDS. Secondly, we design a quality guaranteed video dissemination protocol for urban VANETs scenarios. Based on our comparison result, our protocol selects the CDS and Interleaving as the routing and error resilient techniques. To fix the single packet loses caused by the topology’s intermittent disconnection and collisions, we propose a store-carry-broadcast scheme for the nodes to re-transmit the local buffer saved packets. The results, when compared to the selected techniques and combinations, show that our proposed protocol is the most efficient one in terms of packet delivery, delay, overhead and video quality.

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are envisioned to provide many road and safety applications that will improve drivers' awareness and enhance the driving experience. Many of proposed applications are location-based that depend on sharing the location information of vehicles and events among neighboring nodes. The location-based applications should provide vehicle operators with knowledge of the current surrounding conditions to help them make appropriate traveling decisions, such as avoiding traffic congestion. Drivers expect to receive accurate and reliable information from other vehicles. Therefore, securing localization service integrity is important to support a VANET's overall system reliability. In this thesis, we study the exchanged location information in VANETs and designed a framework to prevent potential security threats that will violate users' privacy and overcome limitations that can impact the exchanged data integrity and reliability. The solution developed a secure neighborhood awareness service and shared localization information management protocol in a VANET. The proposed framework is constructed through several components: (i) a location verification protocol that will secure location information by providing a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) verification protocol to overcome moving obstacle effects; (ii) privacy-preserving location information management to detect data inconsistency and provide a recovery process while preventing attackers from tracking individual vehicles; (iii) a trust model evaluation mechanism based on neighborhood awareness; (iv) an adaptive beacon protocol that will reduce the number of messages and provide quality of service(QoS) control for network managers and authorities. We also propose a security evaluation model that quantifies the security attributes for the localization service in a VANET. The model will help evaluate an integrated security measures that are provided by different components of the network services.

One of the most challenging issues facing vehicular networks lies in the design of an efficient MAC protocol due to mobile nature of nodes, delay constraints for safety applications and interference. In this thesis, I propose an efficient Multichannel QoS Cognitive MAC (MQOG). MQOG assesses the quality of channel prior to transmission employing dynamic channel allocation and negotiation algorithms to achieve significant increase in channel reliability, throughput and delay constraints while simultaneously addressing Quality of Service. The uniqueness of MQOG lies in making use of the free unlicensed bands. To consider fair effective sharing of resources I propose a Mobility Based Dynamic Transmit Opportunity (MoByToP) while modifying the 802.11e TXOP (Transmit Opportunity). The proposed protocols were implemented in OMNET++ 4.1, and extensive experiments demonstrated a faster and more efficient reception of safety messages compared to existing VANet MAC Protocols. Finally, improvements in delay, packet delivery ratios and throughput were noticed.

Improving road safety and traffic efficiency has been a long-term endeavor for the government, automobile industry and academia. Recently, the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has allocated a 75 MHz spectrum at 5.9 GHz for vehicular communications, opening a new door to combat the road fatalities by letting vehicles communicate to each other on the roads. Those communicating vehicles form a huge Ad Hoc Network, namely Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET). In VANETs, a variety of applications ranging from the safety related (e.g. emergence report, collision warning) to the non-safety related (e.g., delay tolerant network, infortainment sharing) are enabled by vehicle-to-vehicle (V-2-V) and vehicle-to-roadside (V-2-I) communications. However, the flourish of VANETs still hinges on fully understanding and managing the challenging issues over which the public show concern, particularly, security and privacy preservation issues. If the traffic related messages are not authenticated and integrity-protected in VANETs, a single bogus and/or malicious message can potentially incur a terrible traffic accident. In addition, considering VANET is usually implemented in civilian scenarios where locations of vehicles are closely related to drivers, VANET cannot be widely accepted by the public if VANET discloses the privacy information of the drivers, i.e., identity privacy and location privacy. Therefore, security and privacy preservation must be well addressed prior to its wide acceptance. Over the past years, much research has been done on considering VANET's unique characteristics and addressed some security and privacy issues in VANETs; however, little of it has taken the social characteristics of VANET into consideration. In VANETs, vehicles are usually driven in a city environment, and thus we can envision that the mobility of vehicles directly reflects drivers' social preferences and daily tasks, for example, the places where they usually go for shopping or work. Due to these human factors in VANETs, not only the safety related applications but also the non-safety related applications will have some social characteristics. In this thesis, we emphasize VANET's social characteristics and introduce the concept of vehicular social network (VSN), where both the safety and non-safety related applications in VANETs are influenced by human factors including human mobility, human self-interest status, and human preferences. In particular, we carry on research on vehicular delay tolerant networks and infotainment sharing --- two important non-safety related applications of VSN, and address the challenging security and privacy issues related to them. The main contributions are, i) taking the human mobility into consideration, we first propose a novel social based privacy-preserving packet forwarding protocol, called SPRING, for vehicular delay tolerant network, which is characterized by deploying roadside units (RSUs) at high social intersections to assist in packet forwarding. With the help of high-social RSUs, the probability of packet drop is dramatically reduced and as a result high reliability of packet forwarding in vehicular delay tolerant network can be achieved. In addition, the SPRING protocol also achieves conditional privacy preservation and resist most attacks facing vehicular delay tolerant network, such as packet analysis attack, packet tracing attack, and black (grey) hole attacks. Furthermore, based on the ``Sacrificing the Plum Tree for the Peach Tree" --- one of the Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China, we also propose a socialspot-based packet forwarding (SPF) protocol for protecting receiver-location privacy, and present an effective pseudonyms changing at social spots strategy, called PCS, to facilitate vehicles to achieve high-level location privacy in vehicular social network; ii) to protect the human factor --- interest preference privacy in vehicular social networks, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving protocol, called FLIP, for vehicles to find like-mined ones on the road, which allows two vehicles sharing the common interest to identify each other and establish a shared session key, and at the same time, protects their interest privacy (IP) from other vehicles who do not share the same interest on the road. To generalize the FLIP protocol, we also propose a lightweight privacy-preserving scalar product computation (PPSPC) protocol, which, compared with the previously reported PPSPC protocols, is more efficient in terms of computation and communication overheads; and iii) to deal with the human factor -- self-interest issue in vehicular delay tolerant network, we propose a practical incentive protocol, called Pi, to stimulate self-interest vehicles to cooperate in forwarding bundle packets. Through the adoption of the proper incentive policies, the proposed Pi protocol can not only improve the whole vehicle delay tolerant network's performance in terms of high delivery ratio and low average delay, but also achieve the fairness among vehicles. The research results of the thesis should be useful to the implementation of secure and privacy-preserving vehicular social networks.

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide opportunities to exchange traffic information among vehicles allowing drivers to not only adjust their routes but also prevent possible collisions. Due to the criticality of exchanged information, message authentication which will not expose the privacy of vehicles is required. The majority of current authentication schemes for VANETs depend primarily on public-key cryptography which brings extra overhead in terms of delay and requires infrastructure support for certificate verification. Symmetric-key based techniques can be more efficient, but they introduce significant key maintenance overheads. Herein, by considering the natural group behavior of vehicle communications, we propose an efficient and lightweight symmetric-key based authentication scheme for VANETs based on group communication. Expanding the protocol's flexibility, we also propose an extension which integrates certain benefits of asymmetric-key techniques. We analyze the security properties of our proposed schemes to show there applicability when there is little to no infrastructure support. In addition, the proposed protocol was implemented and tested with real-world vehicle data. Simulation results confirmed the efficiency in terms of delay with respect to other proposed techniques.

With the envisioned age of Internet of Things (IoTs), different aspects of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) will be linked so as to advance road transportation safety, ease congestion of road traffic, lessen air pollution, improve passenger transportation comfort and significantly reduce road accidents. In vehicular networks, regular exchange of current position, direction, speed, etc., enable mobile vehicle to foresee an imminent vehicle accident and notify the driver early enough in order to take appropriate action(s) or the vehicle on its own may take adequate preventive measures to avert the looming accident. Actualizing this concept requires use of shared media access protocol that is capable of guaranteeing reliable and timely broadcast of safety messages. This dissertation investigates the use of Network Coding (NC) techniques to enrich the content of each transmission and ensure improved high reliability of the broadcasted safety messages with less number of retransmissions. A Code Aided Retransmission-based Error Recovery (CARER) protocol is proposed. In order to avoid broadcast storm problem, a rebroadcasting vehicle selection metric η, is developed, which is used to select a vehicle that will rebroadcast the received encoded message. Although the proposed CARER protocol demonstrates an impressive performance, the level of incurred overhead is fairly high due to the use of complex rebroadcasting vehicle selection metric. To resolve this issue, a Random Network Coding (RNC) and vehicle clustering based vehicular communication scheme with low algorithmic complexity, named Reliable and Enhanced Cooperative Cross-layer MAC (RECMAC) scheme, is proposed. The use of this clustering technique enables RECMAC to subdivide the vehicular network into small manageable, coordinated clusters which further improve transmission reliability and minimise negative impact of network overhead. Similarly, a Cluster Head (CH) selection metric F(j) is designed, which is used to determine and select the most suitably qualified candidate to become the CH of a particular cluster. Finally, in order to investigate the impact of available radio spectral resource, an in-depth study of the required amount of spectrum sufficient to support high transmission reliability and minimum latency requirements of critical road safety messages in vehicular networks was carried out. The performance of the proposed schemes was clearly shown with detailed theoretical analysis and was further validated with simulation experiments.

Los modelos de estimación de emisiones para fuentes móviles entregan la información de entrada a los modelos de dispersión de contaminantes, que definen la calidad del aire en zonas urbanas. Dentro de estos modelos, un elemento ´ decisivo para el calculo de emisiones son los modos de conducción de los vehículos en la ciudad. Las principales características de los modos de conducción son la velocidad instantánea y la aceleración, incluyendo además la pendiente de la ruta. Con estos parámetros es posible caracterizar el estado de operación del motor mediante la potencia específica del vehículo (PSV) segundo a segundo. El objetivo principal de esta memoria es aplicar una metodología de calculo de emisiones vehiculares basada en modos de conducción y PSV para vehículos livianos en zonas urbanas. Este nuevo esquema de modelacion basado en PSV es utilizado para comparar los modos de conducción y su impacto sobre las emisiones vehiculares, entre dos centros urbanos de América Latina: Santiago y Buenos Aires. La metodología utilizada en ambas localidades es la misma y consiste en registrar velocidad y altura segundo a segundo en vehículos instrumentados. Para describir fielmente el comportamiento de conducción de cada centro urbano se seleccionan 3 sectores (alto ingreso, bajo ingreso, comercial) y, dentro de cada sector, 3 tipos de recorrido (autopista, avenida, residencial). La información recopilada a través de esta metodología es utilizada para caracterizar los modos de conducción, su PSV y las emisiones de contaminantes asociadas a cada centro urbano. La PSV traduce cuantitativamente los parámetros característicos de un modo de conducción instantáneo a niveles de demanda energética del motor. Finalmente, utilizando una base de datos de emisiones vehiculares para una categoría particular, y ponderandola con los valores de potencia específica obtenidos para cada recorrido, se determina el nivel de contaminantes unitarios emitidos en cada ciudad. Ademas, se propone una variante a la fórmula principal del cálculo de potencia específica propuesta en la literatura, específicamente en el termino asociado a la energía potencial. Se obtuvieron diferencias importantes a nivel de velocidades medias, velocidades máximas y aceleraciones entre un centro urbano y otro. Sin embargo, estas diferencias se ven disminuidas al expresar los modos de conducción en términos de PSV, debido a la preponderancia de los eventos de detención en comparación a aquellos en que se presentan cambios de velocidad. A pesar de que las diferencias a nivel de PSV son leves, estas generan un gran impacto en las emisiones vehiculares unitarias. De lo anterior se concluye que los hábitos de conducción inciden en forma importante en el calculo de emisiones vehiculares y deben ser considerados en la determinación de inventarios a través de modelos de emisión.

O objetivo do trabalho é melhorar o controle do comportamento dinâmico sob excitação vertical de um modelo veicular completo levando em consideração os três movimentos principais, de elevação (heave), balanço (pitch) e de rolagem (roll), em termos de aceleração. Com essa finalidade desenvolve-se a programação necessária para implementação de um modelo de veículo completo de 7 GDL no programa MATLAB® que interage com o sistema de controle ativo desenvolvido em diagrama de blocos no programa Simulink®. Em seguida, o desempenho do modelo é avaliado através de programas desenvolvidos de excitações de estrada com perfil senoidal e randômico. Os resultados obtidos mostram que o movimento da massa suspensa, em termos de aceleração, acima e abaixo do valor da frequência natural da roda pode ser diminuído pela filtragem dos coeficientes de mola e amortecimento através de um laço de controle interno, mais a utilização de amortecimento skyhook das velocidades de elevação, balanço e rolagem com um laço de controle externo. A atenuação das constantes de mola abaixo da frequência do corpo do veículo reduz as perturbações da estrada, mas podem bater nos limitadores do percurso da suspensão. / The aim of this work is to improve the control of the dynamic behavior under vertical excitation of a full vehicular model whilst taking into consideration the three main movements of heave, pitch and roll in terms of acceleration. With this goal in mind, the necessary programming was carried out for the implementation of a full vehicular model of 7 DOF using the software MATLAB® which interacts with the active control system developed via blocks diagram using the software Simulink®. Following on from that, the performance of the model is evaluated by means of programmes developed from road excitations with a sinusoidal and random profile. The results show that the motion of the sprung mass, in terms of acceleration, above and below the natural frequency of the wheel can be reduced by filtering the spring and damping coefficients through an internal control loop, plus the usage of skyhook damping of heave, pitch and roll velocities with an external control loop. The mitigation of the spring constants below the frequency of the body of the vehicle reduces the excitations of the road, but may strike against the path limiters of the suspension.

La mayoría de los inventarios de emisiones de fuentes móviles en Latinoamérica provienen de modelos internacionales de estimación de emisiones, en su mayoría estadounidenses o europeos. Modelos como COPERT, Mobile o IVE en sus distintas versiones se han utilizado completa o parcialmente en orden de establecer los inventarios que sirven como herramienta a los tomadores de decisión locales. Sin embargo, dentro de la ecuación básica que usan estos modelos para calcular las emisiones existe un dato que no necesariamente es válido para la realidad en Latinoamérica: los factores de emisión. El objetivo principal de este trabajo de Tesis es medir y analizar las emisiones de vehículos diesel en Latinoamérica, utilizando sistemas de medición a bordo y la metodología de Potencia Específica Vehicular para el análisis. En general los factores de emisión internacionales no necesariamente reflejan las condiciones de conducción, de mantención, características de los combustibles o características geográficas de las distintas ciudades de la región. Considerando lo anterior, se realizaron 4 campañas de emisión, midiendo un total de 143 vehículos diesel en Latinoamérica, con el apoyo de The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation en el caso de Ciudad de México y Sao Paulo, y con el apoyo del Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica de la Universidad de Chile (DIMEC) y la Secretaría Interministerial de Planificación de Transporte (SECTRA) en el caso de Santiago. Las mediciones se realizaron utilizando equipos de medición de carácter portátil. Para los gases se utilizó una unidad Semtech-D de Sensors-Inc y para la medición de material particulado se utilizó una unidad DMM240 de Dekati. La unidad Semtech-D tiene la capacidad de medir monóxido de carbono (CO), hidrocarburos totales (THC), óxidos de nitrógeno (NOX) y dióxido de carbono (CO2). La unidad DMM240 mide material particulado menor a 1.5 micrones. Ambos equipos tienen una frecuencia de muestreo de 1 hertz. Una vez recogidos los datos segundo a segundo de los equipos, se utilizó la metodología de Potencia Especifica Vehicular. La cual permite normalizar los resultados obtenidos en diferentes localidades y bajo diferentes ciclos de conducción de manera de obtener resultados comparables. De esta manera se logró analizar los resultados de emisiones respecto de la energía utilizada por el vehiculo para un instante dado, la cual es estimada a partir de variables medidas con un GPS. La principal conclusión de este trabajo corresponde a la utilización de la metodología de Potencia Especifica Vehicular que permite comparar resultados medidos bajo diferentes condiciones de operación. De los resultados obtenidos se concluye que las emisiones normalizadas por ciclo de conducción presentan diferencias respecto de los modelos de emisiones internacionales. Esta realidad corrobora la necesidad de realizar campañas de emisión locales.