Hitachi (France)

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) rely on a combination of data acquired from on-board sensors and map data, the so-called Electronic Horizon. The Electronic Horizon provides an extended view on the surroundings of the ego vehicle, thereby enriching safety and efficiency applications. In this context, one key aspect is the application program interface (API) that is used between the Electronic Horizon and ADAS components. Although proposals of interfaces exist, none of them currently meets the requirements of future automated vehicles. To fill this gap, we propose extensions to the concepts used in ADASISv2 and ETSI LDM. Our solution comes in the form of an extended ADASIS protocol that uses a hybrid data representation approach: 1D lane-level path map and 2D detailed spatial map. We validated our protocol with real-world experiments being run in an automated vehicle and showed that such a hybrid approach can reduce up to 80% of the amount of data sent to applications, while maintaining compatibility with the current ADASISv2 protocol specification.

Passive network monitoring is very useful for the operation, maintenance, control and protection of communication networks, while in certain cases it provides the authorities with the means for law enforcement. Nevertheless, the flip side of monitoring activities is that they are natively surrounded by serious privacy implications and, therefore, they are subject to data protection legislation. Chapter 22 investigates the challenges related to privacy protection in passive network monitoring, based on a joint technical and regulatory analysis of the associated issues. After introducing the issue and its special characteristics, the chapter provides background knowledge regarding the corresponding legal and regulatory framework, as well as some related work. It then delves into the description of the legal and regulatory requirements that govern network monitoring systems, before providing an overview of a reference monitoring system, which has been designed with these requirements in mind.Request access from your librarian to read this chapter's full text.

Next generation network nodes are required to function within heterogeneous network environments, where new services and protocols are rapidly deployed on demand. In such emerging environments, traditional node architectures that offer a predetermined and preloaded set of services, are increasingly incapable of coping with these new requirements. Accordingly, there is a need for new node architectures that offer higher degrees of flexibility measured by their capability to extend the functionality of the node and change its behaviour on demand. This paper makes use of programmable and active network technologies as developed during the FAIN project, to present a novel secure active node architecture, called the FAIN node architecture, capable of supporting virtual environments (VEs) for the allocation of the required amount of resources in which new services are dynamically deployed together with their entire execution environments (EEs). To this end, multiple VEs and services run simultaneously and interact securely with the node resources and mechanisms through open interfaces and the FAIN node management framework. We also present the implementation of the FAIN node architecture and two case studies that demonstrate its extensibility aspects and novel features.