Enabling Real-Time Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Communication for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)

Abstract

The rapid advancement in the automobile industry and the ease with which vehicles can be acquired has resulted in a significant rise in the number of vehicles on the road. Vehicles have been upgraded from time to time to provide all kind of facilities to the commuters. Security features of the vehicle have also been enhanced, with the addition of airbags, seatbelts and so on. Still, however, there are many situations in which security has not been provided in complete sense, like prevention of accidents from occurring. There are also many other areas, where vehicles of present age cause problems to the commuters like traffic jams, human proximity detection, and so on. All these have led to the need of emergence of an Intelligent Transportation System, which embodies intelligence and provides innovative solutions such as traffic monitoring, blind crossing, preventing two or more vehicles from colliding, real-time route computation to the destination, and many more. This very idea of Intelligent Transportation System can be realized with the help of a communication paradigm, VANET (Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network), which ensures vehicle-to-vehicle communication.