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This paper studies how to implement a privacy friendly form of ticketing for public transport in practice. The protocols described are inspired by current (privacy invasive) public transport ticketing systems used around the world. The…
We introduce a permissioned distributed ledger technology (DLT) design for crowdsourced smart mobility applications. This architecture is based on a directed acyclic graph architecture (similar to the IOTA tangle) and uses both…
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The establishment of fast and reliable communication technologies, such as 5G, is enabling the evolution of a new generation of connected ADAS. This work aims to develop a traffic light advisory system, Multiple Traffic Light Advisor…
The growing deployment efforts of 5G networks globally has led to the acceleration of the businesses/services' digital transformation. This growth has led to the need for new communication technologies that will promote this transformation.…
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Various German and European research projects created several isolated solutions for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) infrastructure. As a matter of fact, a lot of those solutions are temporary. The backend architecture provided by…
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The field of electric vehicle charging involves a complex combination of actors, devices, networks, and protocols. These protocols are being developed without a clear focus on security. In this paper, we give an overview of the main roles…
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