Trustworthy Applications for Vehicular Environments

The integration of traditional information technologies in vehicular environments enables new kinds of application services and creates new technological challenges that have not existed before. Dynamic network topology, unreliable network links, and moving terminals make it hard to provide convincing end user experience. This article will introduce the concept of providing trustworthy applications through wireless networks in vehicular environments. A special emphasis will be on how to maintain end users privacy when providing personalized, context-aware services. Therefore, a service taxonomy, enabling middleware technologies, and service enablers will be introduced.