Abstract
Emerging digital road safety services, transmitted to vehicles and roadside infrastructure in real-time over 5G and other wireless communication media, can help improve road safety as well as enhance traffic efficiency. Adoption of 5G on a large scale for vehicles and intelligent transportation systems (ITS), however, increases the risks of cyberattack for connected vehicles and ITS systems. This paper studies the capabilities of a real-time threat prevention solution as our proposed approach for ensuring sufficient cybersecurity for 5G-enabled road safety services and solutions. This is done by strategically inserting the required security functions within the 5G infrastructure, which allows detecting and blocking threats in real-time. In this paper, we present our proposed solution as well as selected results obtained from piloting it in real 5G test networks in Finland and Canada. The results of our work are encouraging in demonstrating the ability of real-time remediation of cybersecurity threats in connected self-driving cars and intelligent transportation systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks III - Proceedings of the 28th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics, IAVSD 2023, Road Vehicles |
| Editors | Wei Huang, Mehdi Ahmadian |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 185-194 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-66968-2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-66967-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 28th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics, IAVSD 2023 - Ottawa, Canada Duration: 21 Aug 2023 → 25 Aug 2023 |
Publication series
| Series | Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering |
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| ISSN | 2195-4356 |
Conference
| Conference | 28th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics, IAVSD 2023 |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Ottawa |
| Period | 21/08/23 → 25/08/23 |
Funding
The work and collaboration reported in the paper was conducted in the context of the Celtic-Next 5G-SAFE-Plus project that is partially funded by Business Finland in Finland. Wedge Network\u2019s work was also partially funded by the National Research Council of Canada \u2013 Industrial Research Assistance Program. Wedge Networks\u2019 AreaXO testing was also funded by InvestOttawa. The authors also thank for the support and for the collaboration with the partners during the project. As a further acknowledgement, Tiia Ojanper\u00E4\u2019s affiliation was VTT during the execution of the work that led onto this paper.
Keywords
- 5G
- Connected and automated vehicles
- cybersecurity
- ITS systems
- Piloting
- Real-time threat prevention
