TY - GEN
T1 - V2X-based COVID-19 Pandemic Severity Reduction in Smart Cities
AU - Dahmane, Sofiane
AU - Yagoubi, Mohamed Bachir
AU - Lorenz, Pascal
AU - Barka, Ezedin
AU - Lakas, Abderrahmane
AU - Lagraa, Nasreddine
AU - Kerrache, Chaker Abdelaziz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In a jiffy after the outbreak of the 2019 novel coron-avirus, also called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organization (WHO) considered it as a pandemic that threatens the demise of humanity. This quick decision was in conjunction with a real situation of biological inability to find a vaccine that can eliminate the virus or at least limit its spread. For that reason, technological intervention and cooperation are needed more than ever to face this pandemic. In this same context, we propose a novel system that deploys Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology and Blockchain in collaboration to face such a pandemic. Our proposal is centered on a triple-stage processing i) zone identification and classification based on vehicles' thermal cameras detection, ii) Blockchain-based information storage for enhanced patient medical information privacy, and iii) drones-based zone neutralization processes. Simulation results show that, thanks to the use of Blockchain technology, the network-related performance remain almost unchanged and hence, all Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) including inter-vehicles and inter-drones functionalities are not affected. In addition the additional overhead is very acceptable and does not exceed the 5 Kb in the worst case.
AB - In a jiffy after the outbreak of the 2019 novel coron-avirus, also called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organization (WHO) considered it as a pandemic that threatens the demise of humanity. This quick decision was in conjunction with a real situation of biological inability to find a vaccine that can eliminate the virus or at least limit its spread. For that reason, technological intervention and cooperation are needed more than ever to face this pandemic. In this same context, we propose a novel system that deploys Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology and Blockchain in collaboration to face such a pandemic. Our proposal is centered on a triple-stage processing i) zone identification and classification based on vehicles' thermal cameras detection, ii) Blockchain-based information storage for enhanced patient medical information privacy, and iii) drones-based zone neutralization processes. Simulation results show that, thanks to the use of Blockchain technology, the network-related performance remain almost unchanged and hence, all Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) including inter-vehicles and inter-drones functionalities are not affected. In addition the additional overhead is very acceptable and does not exceed the 5 Kb in the worst case.
KW - Blockchain Technology
KW - C-V2X
KW - COVID-19
KW - Pandemic
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685503
DO - 10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685503
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85127260848
T3 - 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021 - Proceedings
BT - 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021
Y2 - 7 December 2021 through 11 December 2021
ER -