Performance analysis of intervehicle Communication for Collaborative Traffic Applications

In the past years, though communication became more and more available and efficient (GPRS, UMTS, Win...), very few traffic applications have been implemented in the real life, all of them using a central server (V2C). Cooperative systems using inter-vehicular communication (V2V) represent the next step, but the deployment roadmap remains unclear, even though safety is strongly pushed. This paper aims at presenting current integration and testing work performed at the LaRA lab for inter-vehicular communication. From the characterization of communication performance, we analyze the suitability of a set of applications. Our aim is to show what kind of application can be deployed with current hardware and software.