Technology Briefs and Whitepapers

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

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

Common Vehicle Interface Initiative
and Cloud and Connected Services Category

Technology Briefs

Curve Logging algorithm

• This document describes Geotab's Curve Logging algorithm, which can combine high accuracy with large reduction in the amount of transferred data between vehicle and cloud.
• Curve Logging Tech Brief

 Vehicle Data Models - Overview and Gap Analysis

• This document reviews five existing vehicle data models and proposes alignment around the Vehicle Service Specification (VSS).

• Vehicle Data Models - Overview and Gap Analysis

Vehicle Domain Interaction Category

Graphic Sharing & Distributed HMI

White papers

 Graphics Sharing Whitepaper

• 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)

• WhitePaper - Graphics Sharing and Distributed HMI v3

Technology Briefs

 Sharing a physical display across multiple operating systems

• This brief describes the Display Sharing category 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.