Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Research

Jim Martin, Associate Professor  (jmarty at clemson.edu)
Networking Lab (netlab), School of Computing, Clemson SC
Dr Martin's Website

Last update: 12/30/2020

We acknowledge the National Science Foundation and the USIgnite Organization for funding our research through NSF grants (award numbers 1531127 and 1544910).


Our research in the area of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) began with prior work in heterogeneous wireless networks.
A wireless hetnet is a network system that includes more than one radio access technology operating in a cooperative manner in a particular geographic location.  It is a bit more difficult to accurately define terms such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle or Vehicle-to-Infrastructure  (V2V, V2I) as they reflect many different research areas. 

NSF leveraged the GENI program to spawn the GENI Wireless program and most recently the  PAWR program.  In parallel,  USIgnite (and other organizations) continued to fund city and state projects  related to a 'Smarter Cities'.  And perhaps most significant has been the investments made by the US Department of Transportation to stimulate both academia and industry in the area of connected and autonomous vehicles. 

These events led to several funded projects in the area of CAVs.  We use the term "USIgnite Project" to refer to our research in the area of Connected Vehicles.

The following links point to  web pages that describe various components of our research. 

  1. NSF/USIgnite: : Enabling Connected Vehicle Applications through Advanced Network Infrastructure
  2. NSF/CPS Synergy: Security of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems with Connected Vehicle Applications
  3. An Immersive Vehicle in the loop VR Platform -  extended SC-CVT to support VR
  4. US DOT Regional Center: C2M2 : Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility





Internal or Project related reports:

-Integration and evaluation of the SC-CVT with the LTE system deployed on campus
-Uncertainty Quantification of Cyber Attacks on Connected Vehicles and Infrastructure, 2020


Journal publications:


A. Alsuhaim, A. Rayamajhi, J. Westall, J. Martin, “Dynamic Headway Time Assignment for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control,   under review, (draft, 12/2020).

K. Chen, X. Xing, M. Palash, J. Liu, J. Martin, “Network-side Multipath Access Management in Wireless Networks with Software-defined Networking”   IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019.

A. Bhargava, J. Martin, S. Babu, “Comparative Evaluation of User Perceived Quality Assessment of Design Strategies for HTTP-Based Adaptive Streaming”,  ACM’s Transactions of Applied Perception, 2019.

G. Hong, J. Martin, J. Westall, “Adaptive Bandwidth Binning for Bandwidth Management”,  Elsevier Computer Networks, vol 150, pp.150-169, Feb 2019.

K. Chen, X. Xing, M. Palash, J. Liu, J. Martin, “Network-side Multipath Access Management in Wireless Networks with Software-defined Networking”   IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019.

M. Chowdhury, M. Rahman,  A. Rayamajhi, S. Khan,  M. Islam, Z. Khan, and J. Martin,  “Lessons Learned from the Real-World Deployment of a Connected Vehicle Testbed,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, (2018).
  
P. Pisu, J. Martin,  and Z. Biron, “A Control-Oriented Perspective For Security in Connected and Automated Vehicles”, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Magazine, 5(4), 17-20, (2017).

K. Dey, A. Rayamajhi, M. Chowdhury, P. Bhavsar, J. Martin, “Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Communication in a Heterogeneous Wireless Network – Performance Evaluation”, Elsevier Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 68, 168-184 (2016).


Academic conference publications:

M. Kaur, J. Martin, “On the Impacts of Machine Learning on Constrained Devices in a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Context”,  under review,  draft, 12/2020.
M. Kaur, G. Ali, A. Rayamajhi, B. Ayalew, J. Martin, “Network Driven Performance Analysis in Connected Vehicular Networks”, Proceedings of the IEEE VTC Conference,  September 2019.

V. Rastogi, R. Merco, M. Kaur, A., Rayamajhi, M. Gavelli, G. Papa, P. Pisu, S. Babu, A. Robb, and J. Martin, “An Immersive Vehicle-in-the-loop VR Platform for Evaluating Human-to-Autonomous Vehicle Interactions,”  Proceedings of WCX: SAE World Congress Experience, 2019.

K. Chen, Xin Xing, Mijanur Rahaman Palash, Jianwei Liu, and James Martin, “Improving Wireless Network Performance under MPTCP based Multipath Access”, Proceedings of the 43nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (October 2018) [best paper award: 1 out of 45].

K.Chen, J. Liu, J. Martin, K. Wang, H. Hu, “Improving Integrated LTE-WiFi Network Performance with SDN-based Flow Scheduling”, Proceedings of the  2018 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018), (July 2018).

A. Rayamajhi, Z. Biron, R. Merco, P. Pisu, J. Westall, J. Martin, “The Impact of Dedicated Short Range Communication on Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018),  (Kansas City, MO, May, 2018).

J. Liu, X. Xing, K. Chen, J. Martin, “On design challenges of an endpoint flow association optimization service in a multi-provider wireless heterogeneous network”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018), (Kansas City, MO, May, 2018).

M. Rahman, M. Chowdhury, A. Rayamajhi, K. Dey, J. Martin, “Adaptive Queue Prediction Algorithm Using Edge-Centric Cyber Physical Platform in a Connected Vehicle Environment”,  Transportation Research board’s 97th Conference,  (Washington DC, Jan, 2018).

Chowdhury, M., Rahman, M., Rayamajhi, A., Khan, S., Islam, M., Khan, Z., and Martin, J., “Lessons Learned from the Real-World Deployment of a Connected Vehicle Testbed,” Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board, (Washington, D.C., Jan, 2018).

A. Rayamajhi, M. Rahman, M. Kaur, J. Liu, M. Chowdhury, H. Hu,J. McClendon, K. Wang, A. Gosain, J. Martin, “ThinGs In a Fog: System Illustration with Connected Vehicles”, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VCT’17),  (Sydney AU, June 2017).

M. Kaur, H. Hu, J. Martin, “Survey: Security in Vehicular Networks”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE’16), (Seattle, WA, Sept 2016).

A. Sarker, C. Qiu, H. Shen, A. Gil, J. Taiber, M. Chowdhury, J. Martin, M. Devine, A. Rindos, “An Efficient Wireless Power Transfer System to Balance the State of Charge of Electric Vehicles”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, (Philadelphia, PA, August 2016).

K. Chen, R. Izard, H. Hu, K. Wang, J. Martin, J. Deng, “HetSDN: Exploiting SDN for Intelligent Network Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”, Proceedings of  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2016), (Beijing China, June 2016).

J. Liu, A. Rayamajhi, J. Martin, “Using MPTCP Subflow Association Control for Heterogeneous Wireless Network Optimization”,  Proceedings of International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt2016), (Tempe AZ, May 2016).