Section: New Results

Communications and Management Control for Cooperative Vehicular Systems

Participants : Ines Ben Jemaa, Oyunchimeg Shagdar, Fawzi Nashashibi, Arnaud de La Fortelle.

One of the attractive applications of electric autonomous vehicles is electric automated Car Sharing service. In this application, a user requests a vehicle at a given geographical location triggering the car sharing system to allocate an autonomous vehicle for the user transport from the station to the user's desired destination. The application requires efficient cooperation among the autonomous vehicles and a service management centre for reliable and responsive car sharing service. Such cooperation is not possible unless vehicles exchange their information on e.g., position, motion, and coordination messages among themselves and with central management entities. While the existing wireless communications technologies can be applied for vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to the infrastructure communications, important research challenges remain including network partitioning problem caused by vehicles' mobility and inability of the convergence of geographically scoped V2V and Internet-based V2I communications. Targeting these issues, we study a topology control solution to tackle the network portioning problem and design of unicast/multicast/Geonetworking schemes for convergence of V2V and V2I communications systems for car-sharing applications [28] .