NR2 will lead the development of the general architecture for secure and dependable VANETs. Supported by LRI expertise and UTFSM by means of UMPMs, NR2 will identify the requirements for achieving both security and dependability, employing a cross-layer approach. This general architecture will guide the development of secure and dependable routing protocols, algorithms and mechanisms considering issues on lower layers of the protocol stack. As outcome of this work, it is expected a technical report, and a survey to be published in a Journal.

UTFSM researchers will address the problem of routing optimization under different constraints and cross-layer interactions, as well as they will handle the UMPM problem and link, MAC and physical layer problems. UTFSM members will interact with researchers working with routing optimization algorithms, security, link, MAC and physical layer issues. Expected outcomes of this work are Conference paper publications and Journal papers at the second year, most probably coauthored with members of LRI or/and NR2.

The networking group of LRI is constituted of three faculty members and ten non-permanent members. It is a component of the project Hipercom (joint project between the LRI, INRIA and the Polytechnic School), which has over thirty members.

The networking group of LRI will address issues related to quality of service, security and admission control of VANETs. To address these problems, the methodology is to propose algorithmic solutions that take into account the constraints of implementation. The performance analysis is given both theoretically to determine limit bounds and by simulation to enrich the analysis and include support for a dynamic environment. The group will consider the implementation of VANET solutions related to security, topology and admission control.