Research Article
Simplifying the in-vehicle connectivity for ITS applications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260058, author={Sergio Tornell and Teemu K\aa{}rkk\aa{}inen and J\o{}rg Ott and Carlos Calafate and Juan-Carlos Cano and Pietro Manzoni}, title={Simplifying the in-vehicle connectivity for ITS applications}, proceedings={12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2015}, month={8}, keywords={vehicular networks v2v smartphone grcbox vanet its}, doi={10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260058} }- Sergio Tornell
Teemu Kärkkäinen
Jörg Ott
Carlos Calafate
Juan-Carlos Cano
Pietro Manzoni
Year: 2015
Simplifying the in-vehicle connectivity for ITS applications
MOBIQUITOUS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260058
Abstract
In-vehicle connectivity has experienced a big expansion in recent years; car manufacturers are very active in this sense, and are proposing OBU oriented solutions. This effort is justified by the user demands for always-on connectivity. However, currently available OBUs do not provide the desired flexibility and simplicity of use that would be desirable for ITS applications. For example, none of them considers the possibility for inter-vehicle device-to-device communications. In this paper we present GRCBox, an architecture that ex- tends the in-vehicle connectivity by providing inter and in- vehicular communication support. By creating private vehicular networks, GRCBox allows user devices’ applications to perform direct peer-to-peer communication. In this paper we describe the GRCBox design along with four case studies. We also include the experimental results obtained from a test-bed to show that our solution does not have a negative impact on the performance when compared to a centralized solution.
