英国Sussex大学开始招收5G车联网相关领域CSC全奖博士
各位同学大家好，现在，英国萨塞克斯大学（University of Sussex）信息与工程学院（School of Informatics and Engineering）的盛正国老师（Zhengguo Sheng）开始招收5G车联网、车载自组网通信、5G车联网信息安全以及移动边缘计算等相关方向领域的CSC全奖博士生或者联合培养的博士生。相关的奖学金信息见链接：https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/f ... -Joint-Scholarships
盛老师人比较nice且学术能力强（详见他的CV主页：http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~zs70/index.html），当前他是国际领域富有活力的青年学者，是NXP(恩智浦)-Sussex(苏赛克斯大学)联合实验室主任，长期致力于车载网络与通信、车联网和物联网（IoT）领域的研究；现阶段在研项目同时得到Sussex大学，恩智浦半导体、丰田汽车研究院、英国HW communications的资助。
当前车联网、面向5G的车载组网通信是非常火的领域（下一代车联网和5G会有深度融合），而且5G车联网信息安全相关技术也是业界和学界广泛关注的前沿方向。盛老师今年招生的研究方向瞄准了5G车联网、信息安全、移动边缘计算等热门领域，在未来十几年，尤其是面向智能网联汽车、自动驾驶技术产业，这些方向的高水平人才会是相关行业广泛的需求点。另外，Sussex大学在英国布莱顿市——布莱顿（Brighton）是英国著名的海滨旅游城市之一，风光优美气候宜人，总而言之，自然环境条件很棒——在这种优美的环境中搞科研也是一大快乐的事情了~
有意向出（英）国（国）就读博士小伙伴，可以随时给盛老师发邮件（z.sheng@sussex.ac.uk）进行咨询（PS：当然，如果有什么疑问也可以发邮件给我咨询：jianshanzhou@foxmail.com）。
盛老师下周一（12月17日）会回国一趟，周一（17日）上午他会来北航访问（他和北航车路协同北京市重点实验室有长期深入的研究合作），有意向的同学可以跟我联系一下（本人手机：15210966802），我可以帮助大家安排、预约和盛老师面对面交流的时间（盛老师周一上午都会在北航）。
下面和附件是具体的招生说明：

Security and Privacy in 5G Vehicular Communications
Supervisor: Dr Zhengguo Sheng and Prof. Maziar Nekovee
Department of Engineering and Design
1. Project summary
Nowadays, the number of vehicles equipped with devices to provide wireless communication capability that form a vehicular network, also known as connected vehicles, have grown significantly. However, as the number of connected vehicles increases and use cases evolve, the volume of data required for such applications will continue to increase. The upcoming 5G communications can lift the barrier in delivering seamless connectivity, however, potential security threats in vehicular networks would disable, degrade, or disrupt the functionality, capability, and performance of vehicle communication capabilities and cooperative vehicle safety applications.In addition, such networks could offer an opportunity for individuals and organizations to obtain private information about drivers, identify vehicles on the road, and track their movements. This privacy breaches become a serious concern because of the proliferation of connected vehicles.This project will focus on innovative research on security and privacy design for 5G vehicular communications.
2. Project description
Communication protocols for information transmission between vehicles and roadside unit (RSU) infrastructure equipment, known as vehicles to infrastructures (V2I), as well as between vehicles, known as vehicles to vehicles (V2V), becomes more inevitable for applications of 5G mobile content dissemination. The opportunistic contacts enabled by V2I and V2V communications are capable of providing high bandwidth communication capacity for data transmission, which forms the basis of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) [1, 2]. In a VDTN, a vehicle will store the mobile content (data) in its buffer, carry it and forwards this data to an appropriate vehicle when a transmission opportunity is available along the vehicle’s movement. RSU also participate in the network by storing and forwarding data. VDTN nodes represent vehicles or the entities owning and managing them, and edges the relationship between two entities. In VDTNs, information about entities owning and managing VDTN nodes and their relationships may be private. VDTN applications would benefit from mechanisms that enforce the entities\' identities and/or relationship anonymity due to the sensitive or confidential nature of the entities\' identities and their behaviours. In addition, a VDTN node will store the data in its buffer, carry it and forwards this data to an appropriate vehicle when a transmission opportunity is available along the node\'s movement. Even though forwarding schemes have been proposed in literature for VDTNs [3], many challenging and open problems exist related to ensuring security and privacy of moving vehicles. Caching, for instance, can be used to improve data access performance. However, the multicast delivery could be prone to information leakage if a vehicle becomes malicious. In addition, to manage and organize decentralized and self-managed systems such as vehicular environments, incentive schemes [4] can be used, hence compensating for the nonexistence of a central or dedicated entity. Appropriate network design and/or incentive schemes are hence needed to ensure encrypted data delivery to requesters in such cases. In this project, we will carry out research on mathematical modelling, innovative design and simulation-based experiments on security, privacy and networking in connected vehicles. This project will promote cross-fertilization among different research fields, such as optimization, decision theory, networking, and security. Particular research topics include but are not limited to:
Secure cooperative caching schemes in vehicular environments due to the lack of persistent network connectivity and the existence of untrusted vehicles;
Analyse the trade-off between encrypted data accessibility and caching overhead due to the difficulty in coordinating multiple untrusted caching nodes (vehicles or RSUs);
Use incentive schemes to improve VDTN caching decision-making;
3. Facilities and training opportunities available to the student
The communication research group from the Department of Engineering and Design has well equipped facilities to carry on this research project. The project equipment and consumables provided by EPSRC (2017-2018), Royal Society (2017-2019) and H2020 EPIC (2018-2019) projects can also be reused by the student. Specifically, the industry partner (NXP) donated secure vehicle communication platform and self-developed vehicle communication simulation tools will be used for this research project.
The PhD candidate will also have the opportunity to collaborate with world-class academic and industrial partners, such as NXP and Toyota research lab.
Importance and relevance to the school strategy: This is an area of growing importance in both the automobile sector as well as the transportation and information/ 5G communication sectors. Over the next 5 to 10 years, substantial growth in these sectors will require the support of a large number of highly qualified personnel (HQP) who are well trained in regard to the technical issues being addressed by the proposed project. The proposed project also aligns with the school research strategy in gaining novel knowledge of vehicle security and developing prototype applications. It is also a multi-discipline research project relating to mobile communications and networking, vehicles and computing system.
4. Scholarship
The University of Sussex offers up to 10 three-year joint scholarship for PhD and visiting scholars. Under the Sussex/CSC Joint Scholarship Scheme, Sussex will cover tuition fees and bench fees and the CSC will provide a living allowance.
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/f ... -Joint-Scholarships
5. References
[1] N. Magaia, Z. Sheng, P. Pereira and M. Correia, quot;REPSYS: A robust and distributed incentive scheme for collaborative caching and dissemination in content-centric cellular-based Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks quot;, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2018.
[2] P. R. Pereira, A. Casaca, J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, V. N. G. J. Soares, J. Triay, and C. Cervelló-Pastor, “From delay-tolerant networks to vehicular delay-tolerant networks,” IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1166–1182, 2012.
[3] N. Benamar, K. D. Singh, M. Benamar, D. El Ouadghiri, and J. M. Bonnin, “Routing protocols in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks: A comprehensive survey,” Comput. Commun., vol. 48, pp. 141–158, Jul. 2014.
[4] N. Magaia and Z. Sheng, quot;ReFIoV: A Novel Reputation Framework for Information-Centric Vehicular Applications quot;, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019.下载提醒：APP中打开可直接下载，点击下载2019_PhD_studentship_zsheng2.docx返回小木虫查看更多