Technology Briefs and Whitepapers

In addition to published specifications and code, and reference architecture information, GENIVI presents a family of technology and security-related technology briefs and whitepapers. 

These documents have also been published on the GENIVI home page.

Vehicle Domain Interaction Category

Graphic Sharing & Distributed HMI

White paper

 Graphics Sharing Whitepaper
WhitePaper - Graphics Sharing and Distributed HMI v2.0 (some proofreading ongoing)

This comprehensive document summarizes and compares all the studied approaches in one document. 
(The tech briefs below focus on one specific topic at a time)

Technology Briefs

 Sharing a physical display across multiple operating systems

• This brief describes the Display Sharing which provides support in hardware for compositing the display output from multiple operating systems into a single final display buffer. Using this, a combined HMI can be created from independently operating systems without any additional interaction

• GENIVI_Renesas_DisplaySharing_TechBrief_1Mar2019.pdf

Published with support from Renesas

 Digital Cockpit HMI Distribution Using Shared State, Independent Rendering

• This brief introduction introduces the 5 identified categories of Graphics Sharing and describes a concrete application of the Shared State / Independent Rendering approach for  Navigation map interaction between an IVI unit display and an instrument cluster display.

• GENIVI_HARMAN Shared State Rendering_TechBrief_20180414.pdf

Published with support from Harman

 Interactive Cockpit HMI using Surface Sharing

• This brief describes the Surface Sharing category of graphics exchange, exemplified by the Wayland+Waltham projects.
• GENIVI_ADIT_SurfaceSharing_TechBrief_20180711.pdf

Published with support from ADIT

 Distributed Graphics Control Through API Remoting

• This brief describes the API Remoting category of graphics exchange, exemplified by the RAMSES project.
• GENIVI Distributed HMI through API Remoting 20181128.pdf

Published with support from BMW

Generic Communication Protocols Evaluation

Whitepaper and Project report:  Generic Protocols

• This white paper reports the outcome of the GPRO work on surveying protocol usage in the automotive industry and a whitepaper-style introduction of key technologies such as Franca IDL, Franca Plus, CommonAPI, MQTT, CoAP, WAMP, D-Bus and HTTP/RESTful services, and the Franca to AUTOSAR ARA::COM investigation, among other things.
• GENIVI_Generic_Protocols_Evaluation_Results_Whitepaper_20190612.pdf

Tech Brief: Franca / ARA::COM Interoperability

• This brief describes an approach and technologies essential to building a demonstrator for the interoperability of GENIVI IVI (and LInux) based IVI systems and Adaptive AUTOSAR systems.

• GENIVI Franca-ARA-COM-tech-brief-20181219.pdf

Published with support from itemis and itk

Security Category

 Certificate Pinning Technology Brief

• This one-pager gives an advanced reader an immediate understanding of the basics of Certificate Pinning, for avoidance of Man-in-the-middle attacks against SSL/TLS secured communications.
• GENIVI Certificate Pinning Tech Brief 20180216.pdf

Audience: Busy professionals, software engineers, as well as managers that need a quick awareness boost about risks and mitigations around encrypted communication channels.

Published with support from Irdeto.

 Man-in-the-middle Whitepaper

• This detailed document provides an in-depth analysis of Man-in-the-middle attacks against secured communications, and mitigations, including the concepts mentioned in the Certificate Pinning Technology Brief.
• GENIVI Man in The Middle Attacks whitepaper Feb 20 Final.pdf

Audience: Security professionals, system architects and implementers that need a deeper understanding of pitfalls and risks in implementing SSL/TLS, categories of attacks, and the type of mitigation that is effective against each.

Published with support from Irdeto.