Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are a challenging IoT scenario. While research is proposing increasingly sophisticated hardware and software solutions for on-board context detection, probably high-level context information sharing has not been adequately addressed so far. This paper proposes a novel logic-based framework enabling a contextual data management and mining in VANETs. It grounds on a knowledge fusion algorithm based on non-standard, nonmonotonic inference services in Description Logics, adopting standard Semantic Web languages. Ontology-referred context annotations produced by individual VANET nodes are merged with automatic reconciliation of inconsistencies. An efficient information dissemination protocol complements the proposal. The approach has been implemented in a vehicular network simulator and early experimental results proved its effectiveness and feasibility.

A Knowledge Fusion Approach for Context Awareness in Vehicular Networks / Ruta, Michele; Scioscia, Floriano; Gramegna, Filippo; Ieva, Saverio; Di Sciascio, Eugenio; Perez De Vera, Raffaello. - In: IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL. - ISSN 2327-4662. - ELETTRONICO. - 5:4(2018), pp. 2407-2419. [10.1109/JIOT.2018.2815009]

A Knowledge Fusion Approach for Context Awareness in Vehicular Networks

Michele Ruta;Floriano Scioscia;Filippo Gramegna;Saverio Ieva;Eugenio Di Sciascio;Raffaello Perez De Vera
2018-01-01

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are a challenging IoT scenario. While research is proposing increasingly sophisticated hardware and software solutions for on-board context detection, probably high-level context information sharing has not been adequately addressed so far. This paper proposes a novel logic-based framework enabling a contextual data management and mining in VANETs. It grounds on a knowledge fusion algorithm based on non-standard, nonmonotonic inference services in Description Logics, adopting standard Semantic Web languages. Ontology-referred context annotations produced by individual VANET nodes are merged with automatic reconciliation of inconsistencies. An efficient information dissemination protocol complements the proposal. The approach has been implemented in a vehicular network simulator and early experimental results proved its effectiveness and feasibility.
2018
A Knowledge Fusion Approach for Context Awareness in Vehicular Networks / Ruta, Michele; Scioscia, Floriano; Gramegna, Filippo; Ieva, Saverio; Di Sciascio, Eugenio; Perez De Vera, Raffaello. - In: IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL. - ISSN 2327-4662. - ELETTRONICO. - 5:4(2018), pp. 2407-2419. [10.1109/JIOT.2018.2815009]
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