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The development of ITS radio communication is moving
rapidly on several fronts. In order to help California leverage this
promising technology, we propose to develop a DSRC/WAVE test-bed
for testing and evaluation of the radio and communication protocol
standards in the context of high-value ITS applications. This project
proposes to leverage the MIMO radios being developed by UCLA for
ITS communications.
The research plan is to:
(1) Produce four highly
programmable DSRC compliant radios consistent with basic elements
of the current IEEE/ASTM standard specifications and the recent FCC
ruling determining the DSRC bandplan,
(2) Integrate four DSRC radios
into the testbed,
(3) Develop a protocol architecture for easy plug
and play in the testbed with DSRC protocol prototypes produced by
different research groups,
(4) Deliver one implementation for each
module in the architecture, constituting a functioning DSRC protocol
stack from medium access control to application layers on top of
the radios, and
(5) Demonstrate a collision warning, a toll-type
transaction, and a multimedia download while two vehicles travel
at high-speed. The impact of this project will be to deliver the
first facility able to test true DSRC hardware, capable of handling
control channel as well as service channel applications, at high
speeds, across a realistic distance. |
