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Evaluating Efficiency and Security of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Applications

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  1. ORNL
  2. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Evaluating efficiency and security of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) requires an environment that can support applications and measurements under real-world conditions. This work introduces our implementation and evaluation of a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Research Environment (CAVRE). We implement and evaluate an existing CAV application called Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) using physical Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications between a virtual agent and a real autonomous vehicle operating on a steerable dynamometer. CAVRE allows the follower to autonomously control longitudinal behavior on the dynamometer in order to maintain a steady following time gap from the leader. The effects of a wireless jamming attack on CACC and fuel efficiency is also evaluated. By executing attacks in a controlled environment, we learn how compromised communications can degrade CAV applications. We show that jamming V2V communications can impact CACC’s string stability and decrease fuel efficiency by more than 50%.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1847550
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Unravelling effects of cooperative adaptive cruise control deactivation on traffic flow characteristics at merging bottlenecks journal November 2018
Modeling cooperative and autonomous adaptive cruise control dynamic responses using experimental data journal November 2014
Experimental Characterization and Modeling of RF Jamming Attacks on VANETs journal February 2015
String Stability Analysis of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control under Jamming Attacks
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  • 2017 IEEE 18th International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE) https://doi.org/10.1109/HASE.2017.39
conference January 2017
Security vulnerabilities of connected vehicle streams and their impact on cooperative driving journal June 2015
Real-Time Jamming DoS Detection in Safety-Critical V2V C-ITS Using Data Mining journal March 2019
Plexe: A platooning extension for Veins conference December 2014
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control in Real Traffic Situations journal February 2014

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