A hierarchical view on modeling the reliability of a DSRC link for ETC applications

Author

Visser, Arnoud ; Yakal, Hüseyin Hakan ; van der Wees, Aad-Jan ; Oud, Mireille ; Van Der Spek, Gerard A. ; Hertzberger, Louis O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Amsterdam Univ., Netherlands

Volume

3

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

129

Abstract

For electronic payments, the communication link has to be reliable. Dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) is a proposed solution for the automatic debiting of vehicles in an electronic toll collection (ETC) system without disturbing the traffic flow. The requirements on the reliability of such a system are high, which implies that only large-scale simulations with a lot of detail are effective for analyzing occasional errors. In this paper, a hierarchical approach is worked out that allows such simulations of the communication link, with a 80% reduction of the computational effort compared to simulation with full detail.

Keywords

automated highways; debit transactions; electronic money; modelling; radio links; simulation; telecommunication network reliability; DSRC link reliability modeling; automatic debiting systems; communication link reliability; computational effort; dedicated short-range communication; electronic fee collection; electronic payments; electronic toll collection; error analysis; hierarchical approach; large-scale simulations; simulation detail; traffic flow; Computational modeling; Government; ISO; Large-scale systems; Licenses; Open systems; Physical layer; Road vehicles; Telecommunication network reliability; Vehicle detection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1524-9050

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TITS.2002.801424

Filename

1020211