The European Car to Car Communication Consortium in relation with the American Vehicle Safety Communication project has been playing a key role in the development of the concepts and technologies which are now at the origin of the standardization activities and research projects (GST, PREVENT, SAFESPOT, CVIS) being introduced. Many safety applications (some of them being summarized here) will use this standard infrastructure for contributing to a safer road environment.
Along the ISO OSI reference model the authors describe medium access control, routing in WAVE/DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications), 802.11p, and accompanying standards based on the communication architecture defined by the Car-2-Car Communication Consortium and the National Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VIIC), as within the Federal ITS Program (RITA).
Future automotive applications such as cooperative driving manoeuvres utilizing car-2-X (or vehicle-2-x) communication between on-board units and road-side units are introduced and described en detail. Furthermore, a novel simulation approach combining current approaches for traffic and network simulations is introduced as a method for validating the automotive applications.
