Subject: [ipwave] About Socialized VID

From: dabin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 01:00:02 +0000

Dear IPWAVE Colleagues, 

Here is to promote the idea of Socialized VID for future Vehicular Networks (SVID4VN), which is actually based on our previous research on Social Internet of Things (SIoT) since few years ago. Thus, SVID4VN (and SIoT) believes that all the future IoT terminals will have certain relationships in their own thing-to-thing social networks just as human social networks do. 

Some fundamental requirements and features are presented in the draft of "draft-da-ipwave-advanced-features-01". 

A summary of SVID4VN is given below: 
(1) An IPv6-like VID should be formulated for vehicular networks, with different connotations inside. 
(2) This VID should be above IP layer and be decoupled with underlying dynamic IP address (that may be associated with layer 2 changing MAC address), satisfying the pseudonymity requirement of vehicles. 
(3) This VID is relatively stable and backed up by PKI or IBS for identification and authentication, which then can be utilized to enable all objects in future vehicular networks to be socialized. 
(4) This VID should be compensated by an ID-based policy to limit the access to some associated information, which is proposed to adopt VID relationship trust as one potential management manner for malicious tracking.  
(5) Finally, once these VIDs are socialized in a local scale or very large scale, these thing-to-thing relationships can contribute to develop future innovative services, such as VID-based service discovery, socialized navigation, VID-based new data cast for emergency events on road, and so forth. 

Although this topic seems beyond the current scope of IPWAVE WG, it might be interesting to investigate more, so as to find future-oriented use cases that are suitable for next-step researches in this WG. 

Welcome any comments and look for potential cooperation.  

Best Regards, 
Bin Da, PhD
Huawei Network Lab and SIoT