Controlling Traffic Lights for Ambulances

Author

Fang-Yie Leu ; Miao-Heng Chen ; Yi-Li Huang ; Chung-chi Lin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tunghai Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

462

Lastpage

467

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a traffic control scheme, called the Ambulance Traffic Control System (ATCS for short), in which before an ambulance (AMU for short) passes through a street/road intersection, the ATCS turns the traffic lights of the intersection to green so that the injured people can be transported to a nearby hospital as soon as possible. When Roadside Transportation Authority (RTA for short) and AMU communicate with each other, the delivered messages are encrypted by random numbers and the RSA algorithm. According to our analyses, the ATCS can safely protect the messages.

Keywords

message authentication; public key cryptography; random number generation; road traffic control; traffic engineering computing; vehicular ad hoc networks; AMU communication; ATCS; RSA algorithm; RTA; ambulance traffic control system; message encryption; message protection; random numbers; roadside transportation authority; street-road intersection; traffic control scheme; traffic light control; Accidents; Hospitals; Law; Roads; Security; VANET; ambulance; decrypt; security; traffic lights;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2012 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2972-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BWCCA.2012.82

Filename

6363098