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Title Evaluating CALM M5-based vehicle-to-vehicle communication in various road settings through field trials
Author Annette Böhm and Kristoffer Lidström and Magnus Jonsson and Tony Larsson
Year 2010
PublicationType Conference Paper
Journal
HostPublication Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, (2010 12 01): 613-620
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2010.5735781
Conference 35th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2010, Denver, CO, USA, 10 - 14 October, 2010
Diva url http://hh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:353240
Abstract Future cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications aimed to improve safety, efficiency and comfort on our roads put high demands on the underlying wireless communication system. To gain better understanding of the limitations of the 5.9 GHz frequency band and the set of communication protocols for medium range vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication, a set of field trials with CALM M5 enabled prototypes has been conducted. This paper describes five different real vehicle traffic scenarios covering both urban and rural settings at varying vehicle speeds and under varying line-of-sight (LOS) conditions and discusses the connectivity (measured as Packet Reception Ratio) that could be achieved between the two test vehicles. Our measurements indicate a quite problematic LOS sensitivity that strongly influences the performance of V2V-based applications. We further discuss how the awareness of these context-based connectivity problems can be used to improve the design of possible future cooperative ITS safety applications.