Secure Implementation of a Vehicular Application for the Symbian Platform

TL;DR

This paper presents a cost-effective vehicular ad-hoc network solution using existing smartphones with Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth, demonstrated through a Symbian platform implementation to enable real-world deployment.

Contribution

It introduces a novel vehicular network deployment method leveraging smartphones, reducing infrastructure costs and enabling practical real-world applications.

Findings

Successful implementation on Symbian platform

Cost reduction compared to traditional infrastructure-based networks

Potential for real-world vehicular network deployment

Abstract

A vehicular ad-hoc network is a type of communication network where the nodes are vehicles. Their aim is to manage traffic efficiently in order to prevent unwanted events such as accidents, jams, etc. The research on this type of networks assumes the use of additional infrastructure installed on the roads, and special devices installed in vehicles. In this paper we propose a novel solution for the deployment of vehicular networks, which uses only existing smartphones with technologies such as Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. This approach will save the costs of road infrastructure deployment and extra vehicles devices, making it possible to deploy the first real-world vehicular ad-hoc network with a low cost. In particular, the developed implementation of the proposal for the Symbian platform is here examined in full detail.