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We want to express our gratitude to the SENER Foundation for their support and funding of the project "Making Roads Smart: Long-Range, Low-Energy Wireless Traffic Signs", which has made the development of this work possible.
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Perez-Yuste, AntonioAutor o coautorPitarch-Blasco, JordiAutor o coautorNunez, NeftaliAutor (correspondència)Design of New BLE GAP Roles for Vehicular Communications
Publicat a:Sensors. 24 (15): 4835- - 2024-08-01 24(15), DOI: 10.3390/s24154835
Autors: Perez-Yuste, A; Pitarch-Blasco, J; Falcon-Darias, FA; Nuñez, N
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Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a prominent short-range wireless communication protocol widely extended for communications and sensor systems in consumer electronics and industrial applications, ranging from manufacturing to retail and healthcare. The BLE protocol provides four generic access profile (GAP) roles when it is used in its low-energy version, i.e., ver. 4 and beyond. GAP roles control connections and allow BLE devices to interoperate each other. They are defined by the Bluetooth special interest group (SIG) and are primarily oriented to connect peripherals wirelessly to smartphones, laptops, and desktops. Consequently, the existing GAP roles have characteristics that do not fit well with vehicular communications in cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS), where low-latency communications in high-density environments with stringent security demands are required. This work addresses this gap by developing two new GAP roles, defined at the application layer to meet the specific requirements of vehicular communications, and by providing a service application programming interface (API) for developers of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications. We have named this new approach ITS-BLE. These GAP roles are intended to facilitate BLE-based solutions for real-world scenarios on roads, such as detecting road traffic signs or exchanging information at toll booths. We have developed a prototype able to work indistinctly as a unidirectional or bidirectional communication device, depending on the use case. To solve security risks in the exchange of personal data, BLE data packets, here called packet data units (PDU), are encrypted or signed to guarantee either privacy when sharing sensitive data or authenticity when avoiding spoofing, respectively. Measurements taken and their later evaluation demonstrated the feasibility of a V2X BLE network consisting of picocells with a radius of about 200 m.
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El treball ha estat publicat a la revista Sensors a causa de la seva progressió i el bon impacte que ha aconseguit en els últims anys, segons l'agència Scopus (SJR), s'ha convertit en una referència en el seu camp. A l'any de publicació del treball, 2024 encara no hi ha indicis calculats, però el 2023, es trobava a la posició , aconseguint així situar-se com a revista Q1 (Primer Cuartil), en la categoria Instrumentation.
Independentment de l'impacte esperat determinat pel canal de difusió, és important destacar l'impacte real observat de la pròpia aportació.
Segons les diferents agències d'indexació, el nombre de citacions acumulades per aquesta publicació fins a la data 2025-07-09:
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- Scopus: 2
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Hi ha un lideratge significatiu, ja que alguns dels autors pertanyents a la institució apareixen com a primer o últim signant, es pot apreciar en el detall: Primer Autor (PEREZ YUSTE, ANTONIO) i Últim Autor (NUÑEZ MENDOZA, NEFTALI).
l'autor responsable d'establir les tasques de correspondència ha estat NUÑEZ MENDOZA, NEFTALI.