Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/BWCCA.2012.82
