SEISCIENTOS

Project "SEISCIENTOS: providing adaptive ubiquitous services in vehicular contexts" (TIN2008-06441-C02)

SEISCIENTOS is a coordinated project between the Networking Group of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering (DIIC) of the University of Murcia. It is funded by the spanish "Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) ".

The work proposed in this project is aimed at creating a framework that meets the needs for communication and for the infrastructure to provide dedicated services to end-user in ubiquitous vehicular environments.

The vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communications will have a special relevance in this project. Various communication technologies will be exploited, mainly vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) and networks with infrastructure, whose main representative are 3G cellular networks. We will study the feasibility of such technologies in the area of vehicles; explore new strategies for modeling networks in VANETs, and directing all development towards an integrated environment for a communicating vehicle. In this regard, special attention will be given to provide a common communication interface, isolating the user from handoffs or changes that may occur between different network technologies.

Aspects that, in many cases, are considered at the end in the development of service architectures for vehicles, such as security in the exchange and management of information, and the availability of a suitable location system, will be considered already in the early stages of the project.

All this work will be centralized in one integrated solution, explicitly detailing the activities for the creation of vehicular service system for both the vehicle and the infrastructure side. The traffic environment will be properly modeled, with the objective that the driver (and even passengers) takes advantage from seamless access to a range of services aimed both at improving driving safety and to the reception of information about points of interest or for entertainment

Various companies are involved in this project:

Recent activities

May 9th, 2011:

IFIP Networking 2011

Members of the group are participating in the organization of the IFIP Networking 2011, the 10th event of the series of International Conferences on Networking. It is organized by WARG and GRC of the Computer Engineering Department at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6). The main objectives of Networking 2011 are to bring together members of the networking community from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in the broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key issues, identify trends and develop visions. See more:
- web of the conference

January 21st, 2011:

One-day workshop "Investigación y desarrollo en la industria del motor en España. El papel de Aragón"

Members of the group participated in the organization of this workshop where members of the industry and of the university communities shared their experience in the activities related with car industry in Spain and especially in the Aragon community. See more:

January 9th, 2011:

3rd IEEE Intelligent Vehicular Communications System Workshop (IVCS'11)

Members of the group are participating in the organization of the 3nd IEEE Intelligent Vehicular Communications System Workshop (IVCS'11) which is co-located with IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC ’11). See more:
- web of the workshop