Towards Reliable Communication in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Cyber physical systems (CPS) are increasingly seen as a way to provide solutions for societal benefits. For these systems to become widely adopted, reliability of these systems is a key requirement because CPS appear in safety- and mission critical applications. To bring about the reliability challenges and the scientific principles behind developing solutions for CPS reliability, I am focusing on two CPS domains: intelligent transportation system and reconfigurable conveyor systems. Intelligent transportation system is a system where vehicles collaborate together to improve road safety, alleviate congestion thereby helping the environment, and providing a better travel experience. Reconfigurable conveyor systems represent a class of systems in advanced manufacturing that will make manufacturing agile while reducing the operating costs. This report presents an overview of recent work that highlights the challenges we face and their possible solutions in making communication in ITS reliable. It also discusses the reliability issues in reconfigurable conveyor systems. We then outline the future directions.