Exploring Smartphones as WAVE Devices

In this paper, we explore the possibility of using smartphones as WAVE devices. When it is expected to take more than a decade from now to deploy the WAVE technology in full scale, smartphones running the WAVE protocol stack can bring the benefit of the technology earlier. In particular, we design and implement the lower layers of the WAVE stack in software defined radio (SDR) on smartphone platform and test its vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) performance in the real driving scenarios. We also investigate the performance in the vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication context.