Internet of Vehicles Research · SYNTERA Research Group

Why it matters

Connected vehicles need fast, safe and secure communication with other vehicles and infrastructure to make roads safer and transport smarter.

Protocol design and simulation, secure message exchange, blockchain-based consensus and machine-learning-assisted protocol selection.

Publications

Journal2026
A multi-channel architecture for concurrent safety and non-safety V2I communications
Suleman, D.; Shibl, R.; Wang, M.; Ansari, K.
IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
DOI 10.1109/ojits.2026.3687642
Journal2026
A triangular hybrid FAHP-FTOPSIS and contextual bandit dynamic protocol selection for V2I communications
Suleman, D.; Shibl, R.; Wang, M.; Ansari, K.
Vehicular Communications, 101081
Journal2026
Cryptanalysis and improvement of the SMEP-IoV protocol: A secure and lightweight protocol for message exchange in IoV paradigm
Ghadim, G. O.; Rastegari, P.; Dakhilalian, M.; Hendessi, F.; Saremi, S.; Shibl, R.; … Nguyen, T. T.
IoT, 7(2), 31
DOI 10.3390/iot7020031
Journal2026
MAPS-PBFT: Mobility-aware persistent-survivor PBFT for vehicular networks
Bitok, H. J.; Wang, M.; Desmond, D.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 38(16)
DOI 10.1002/cpe.70887
Journal2025
A simulated study of IoT ALPs over legacy TCP/UDP versus QUIC and SCTP for V2I communications
Suleman, D.; Shibl, R.; Wang, M.; Ansari, K.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
DOI 10.1109/tits.2025.3634370
Journal2023
Investigation of data quality assurance across IoT protocol stack for V2I interactions
Suleman, D.; Shibl, R.; Ansari, K.
Smart Cities, 6(5), 2680–2705
DOI 10.3390/smartcities6050121

Team