Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

General Electric Company

Aditya Ramkrishna Karnik

Bhargav Ramachandra Bellur

Aravind V Iyer

Rajeev Shorey

Babu Ozhur Narayanan

Subhankar Ghosh

Tapan Shah

Bhargav Ramchandra Bellur

Anitha Varghese

Srinivasan Rajavelu

A rail vehicle wheel flat warning system comprising a first sensor, a second sensor and a controller. The first sensor may be located adjacent to a first side of a rail to provide data associated with a rail vehicle wheel passing over the first side of the rail. The second sensor may be located adjacent to the first side of the rail to provide data associated with the rail vehicle wheel passing over the first side of the rail. Furthermore, the controller may be in communication with the first sensor and the second sensor to receive data from the first sensor and the second sensor. The controller may determine a potential wheel deformity based on the data received from the first sensor and the second sensor.

Wheel deformity warning system

A method is provided for processing packets in a security module of a node in a real-time tracking system. The security module receives messages via a communication module. Each message contains an identifier associated with a transmitting entity of the message. A respective identifier is associated with a respective buffer. Messages having a same identifier are stored to an associated buffer. At least one message is selected from each buffer. For each buffer, a verification mode is selected for the message selected based on state variables and identifier-level properties of the identifier associated with that buffer. A buffer for message verification is selected based on state variables and identifier-level properties of all identifiers. The message selected is verified utilizing the selected verification mode. The state variables and the identifier-level properties of all identifiers are updated based on a result of the verification of the at least one message.

Method for efficient message verification on resource-constrained platforms for real-time tracking applications

A system and method for adaptively verifying data in resource constrain systems. The adaptive data verification mechanism employs the proper mode of verification adaptively to balance cost/performance requirements plus security requirements. The algorithm uses a belief level for the validity of a received message, and assigns the belief level to a scale between a bona fide message at one end of the scale and a malicious message at an opposite end of the scale. Depending where on the scale the belief level falls determines which validation mode will be used to authenticate the message. In an alternate embodiment, the belief level relative to a scale and the amount of data waiting to be processed in a buffer are both used to determine which mode will be used to validate the message.

Adaptive data verification for resource-constrained systems

A packet processing framework is provided for a vehicle-to-vehicle communication packet processing system. The framework includes a neighborhood vehicle tracking module for tracking neighboring vehicles relative to a host vehicle. The neighborhood vehicle tracking module assigns a priority level of neighboring vehicles relative to a host vehicle. An adaptive security processing module regulates messages streamed to the neighboring vehicle tracker module that are in accordance with the priorities set forth by the neighborhood vehicle tracking module. The adaptive security processing module selects security modes and schedules messages streamed to the neighborhood vehicle tracking module as a function of priorities set forth by the neighborhood vehicle tracking module, a communication reliability of the transmitting neighboring vehicle, and a likelihood that a message from the neighboring vehicle is genuine as determined by the adaptive security processing module. The neighborhood vehicle tracking module outputs processed kinematics and alert information to at least one vehicle-to-vehicle application.

Framework for packet processing for secure V2V applications on resource-constrained platforms

A system and method for assigning certificates and reducing the size of the certificate revocation lists in a PKI based architecture for a vehicle wireless communications system that includes separating a country, or other area, into geographic regions and assigning region-specific certificates to the vehicles. Therefore, a vehicle need only process certificates and certificate revocation lists for the particular region that it is traveling in. Vehicles can be assigned multiple certificates corresponding to more than one region in the vehicles vicinity as advance preparation for possible travel or transmission into nearby regions. Further, the expiration time of certificates assigned to vehicles corresponding to a given geographic region can be tailored to be inversely proportional to the distance from a registered home region of the vehicle. A scalable design for a back-end certifying authority with region-based certificates can also be provided.

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