Authors : T . Sukuvaara and P. Nurmi

Wireless traffic service platform for combined vehicle-to-vehicle and

vehicle-to-infrastructure communications

Authors : T. Sukuvaara and P. Nurmi

IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol 16, pp. 54 - 61 , December 2009

Speaker : 蔡明信

Introduction

Related work

Platform and services

System description

Technical requirements

Available wireless technologies

Performance analysis and discussion

Conclusions

outline

The vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication platform is currently a popular research topic

Traffic safety enhancement is the driving factor in many approaches,sensor data from vehicles and roadside units is used for providing accident and/or weather warnings to roadside units and vehicles.

Introduction

The capability for continuous communication is an important

goal.

In the carlink project the aim was to build more comprehensive

solution for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and V2V

communication purposes.

Employed hybrid communication of general packet radio

service (GPRS) and wireless networking.

Introduction

Wireless networking stands for the ultimate communication platform, while GPRS’s primary purpose is to provide an alternate communication solution.

The simulations, pilot testing, and analysis evaluate the basic communication efficiency of the platform.

Introduction

In the United States the Department of Transportation is coordinating the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) program.

The European (Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems)CVIS project generates an open standards-based communication.

Related work

The main advantages of carlink are the open platform solution, the flexibility and scalability of the platform into different types of services and capacity communication requirements, and operation reliability based on dual radio communications.

Related work

The Carlink platform is designed to provide an infrastructure to a wide community of commercial and governmental traffic and safety services.

Platform and services

The wireless traffic service platform is divided into three parts:

1. Traffic service central unit (TSCU)

2. Traffic service base stations (TSBSs)

3. Mobile end users (MEUs)

Platform and services

Carlink services.

Operational model of local RWS and incident warning service.

Schematic of the road weather model.

The TSCU is on the top with connections to the underlying service cores , it also stores all data gathered from the platform and forwards the appropriate data to services.

Road weather service(RWS) core includes a weather forecast model

System description

The parameters gathered from the vehicle are the temperature, car throwing indicator, car sudden braking indicator, airbag blast notification

The WLAN/WiMAX and GPRS interfaces are used for communication with the TSBSs and TSCU.

Carlink platform structure

The traffic speed (up to 100 km/h in our scenario) generates an extremely challenging element

Ad-hoc networking with handoff and seamless continuation of communication are important issues required in the final operative system.

Technical requirements

The most popular solution for wireless communication is the Wi-Fi system, which is based on the IEEE 802.11 standard family.

IEEE 802.11p represents the ultimate future solution

Technical requirements

wireless ad hoc communication between vehicles

ensure that the most crucial data will also be exchanged in the platform without any delay when there are no TSBSs nearby.

Technical requirements

WLAN :

Wi-Fi

WiMAX

Available wireless technologies

Two main simulation :

1. One-way traffic scenario

2. Bidirectional traffic scenario

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION

Conditions : four or eight vehicles are traveling at 100 km/h speed

The distances between consecutive vehicles were fixed

to 100 m

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION

Main results of the simulations

Presented the carlink concept of a hybrid wireless traffic service platform between cars

Showcases a true bidirectional communication entity

Analyzed and forecast information about road weather conditions and immediate incident warnings.

Conclusions

Decrease accidents and lives lost in traffic.

The ultimate goal was to create an intelligent communication platform.

Conclusions