Domain Integration Projects

Top-priority projects

Cloud & Connected Services Project (active)

Challenge: Enable the full data-oriented connected vehicle architecture

Enabling easy interoperability of parts, flexibility and choice
Developing common solutions and software
Enabling access to all data we want to exchange
Controlling access to data
Enabling user privacy and data security
Clarifying responsibilities
Facilitating business opportunities and contractual agreements
Agreeing on names, roles, responsibilities

Android Automotive Special Interest Group (active)

Addressing shared technical challenges, improved software designs, and project-related questions in the industry adoption of Android Automotive into vehicles.
- VHAL / Vehicle data APIs : landing page
- Audio HAL: landing page

Hypervisor Project (active)

Challenge: Efficient realization of the move from networked system to consolidated systems

Extending / developing HV APIs e.g. starting from virtio. Potentials for cross-industry consolidation?
Understanding where Common Interfaces are feasible and realistic
For implementors who are interested: Surveying and analyzing available HV choices.
Building the system stack with hypervisors and networked operating system instances

Generic Communication Protocols Evaluation (Completed. FARACON tool delivered, look here)

Challenge: Too many choices, too much diversity, too much boiler-plate code, adaption layers, and incompatibility.

Survey and compare choices MQTT-style, WAMP, RESTful/Web technology and other messaging level protocols
Deep dive: SOME/IP - where is it applicable, and where is it not?
Discuss and reach consensus.
Industry preferred options: Say, among 10-15 choices now, find 3-5 recommended (and for which scenarios they are recommended)

Graphics Sharing & Distributed HMI Compositing (Completed See delivered documents)

(→ However a small spin-off topic is still active on Android+Wayland graphics stack combination)

Challenge: Consistent distributed HMI experience across distributed and diverse multi-ECU systems.

Top-level compositing across domains for the same physical display, with or without mixed safety levels
Diverse operating systems and HMI technologies
Distributed HMIs - Wayland/Waltham... other
+ Graphics transfer encoding/technology
Combining Linux (Wayland) and Android graphics stacks.

User Input Distribution and Coordination (not started)

(possibly a sub-project of Graphics Sharing & Distributed HMI Compositing)

Challenge: Multiple inputs, varying by car model, technology, etc. bound to very complex multi-modal user interactions.

Complexity in encoding rules from input to effect
Bounded latency guarantees, time identification
Modes / modality and dynamic rules

System Health, Debugging and Analysis in Distributed Systems (suspended)

Challenge: The complexity of debugging and running robustly automotive computing systems with today's constant connectivity, data distribution, consolidation/virtualization and cross-domain interactions.
Seeking out, evaluating, consolidating and recommending Tools and Standards that support development of virtualized or connected, distributed systems with cross-domain interactions.

Comprehensive list of identified projects

Hypervisor solutions & low-level API standardization (virtio etc.)
Generic Communication Protocol – for cross domain GNU-Linux / AUTOSAR / Android / other
Including Safe network protocol (End-2-end, etc.)
Graphics Transfer/Sharing
Including Distributed HMI Compositing
Input Handling Coordination
System Health/Debugging/Analysis (incl. Log & Trace)
Distributed System Lifecycle / Node State
Network Traffic routing & accounting (priority/bandwidth/payment…)
(Distributed) Audio management
Distributed User / Login / Profile management

Domain Interaction Strategy Kick-Off - Materials

2 November, 2017.

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