Title: Private and Secure Coordination of Match-Making for Heavy-Duty Vehicle Platooning,
Abstract: A secure and private framework for inter-agent communication and coordination
is developed. This allows an agent, in our case a fleet owner, to ask questions
or submit queries in an encrypted fashion using semi-homomorphic encryption.
The submitted query can be about the interest of the other fleet owners for
using a road at a specific time of the day, for instance, for the purpose of
collaborative vehicle platooning. The other agents can then provide appropriate
responses without knowing the content of the questions or the queries. Strong
privacy and security guarantees are provided for the agent who is submitting
the queries. It is also shown that the amount of the information that this
agent can extract from the other agent is bounded. In fact, with submitting one
query, a sophisticated agent can at most extract the answer to two queries.
This secure communication platform is used subsequently to develop a
distributed coordination mechanisms among fleet owners.