This article addresses the issue of a design to provide remote vehicle
communication services sustainably. These services include new features such as
remote repair of Electronic Control Unit (ECU)’s software errors and feature on
demand, to mention just a few key objectives. With the usual implementations of
the Modular Vehicle Communication Interface (MVCI) runtime server [1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14] many
difficulties remain [15]. They are not
sustainable and require dedicated hardware.
The Dictionary Server discussed here provides necessary data to diagnostic
applications in general, without putting at risk Original Equipment Manufacturer
(OEM)’s expertise. It also provides data to the road infrastructure for V2V- and
Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2X)-based services. This crucial diagnostic data
contains ECUs’ communication parameters, memory programming data, and other
available functions. They are kept confidentially by OEMs. Furthermore, our
solution is nondisruptive, as it also supports traditional vehicle communication
services. We evaluated a prototype in terms of time complexity, scalability, and
availability.
