Technology Briefs and Whitepapers

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

Some of these are from GENIVI times, as evident by the logo and text.
Many documents have also been published on the COVESA 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.

 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 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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.