Zone-based security architecture for intra-vehicular wireless communication
OwnerLakmal Madhusanka Liyanage, Pradeep Kumar +1inventors
InventorsLakmal Madhusanka Liyanage, Pradeep Kumar, Andrei Gurtov
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Abstract
Systems and methods provide secure and wireless intra-vehicular communication. An intra-vehicular communication system has a secured network segment including a plurality of secure zones on a vehicle, the secure zones each having a plurality of node devices. The system also has a single point of security proximate each secure zone on the vehicle providing communication security for a corresponding secure zone, and a public network segment on the vehicle configured to wirelessly transport data traffic between the secure zones.
Claims14
A vehicular communication system, comprising:
- a plurality of network hardware configured for operable coupling with a vehicle system, the plurality of network hardware being configured to establish a secured network segment including a plurality of secure zones on the vehicle system, each secure zone comprising a network zone to which predefined authorized users have access and unauthorized users do not have access, the secure zones each configured for network linking of a respective plurality of node devices;
- wherein the plurality of network devices hardware are further configured to establish one or more single points of security each associated with a respective one of the plurality of secure zones on the vehicle system, for providing communication security for the secure zones;
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- wherein the plurality of network devices hardware are further configured to establish a secure wireless communication tunnel and a public network segment contains a wireless channel on the vehicle system configured to wirelessly transport data traffic between the secure zones.
A vehicular communication system, comprising:
- a first edge hardware device associated with a first secure zone at a first location in a vehicle system and configured to be communicatively coupled with a first plurality of node devices of the first secure zone, for providing a first point of security for the first secure zone;
- a second edge hardware device associated with a second secure zone at a second location in the vehicle system and configured to be communicatively coupled with a second plurality of node devices of the second secure zone, for providing a second point of security for the second secure zone;
- a first wireless transponder operatively coupled to the first edge hardware device;
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- a second wireless transponder operatively coupled to the second edge hardware device, the first edge hardware device and the second edge hardware device configured to establish a first secure wireless communication tunnel and a public network segment contains a wireless channel between the first secure zone and the second secure zone via the first wireless transponder and the second wireless transponder;
- wherein each secure zone comprises a network zone to which predefined authorized users have access and unauthorized users do not have access.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.