Project Cooperative Cars
(CoCar)
The
CoCar project is aiming at basic research for C2C and C2I communication
for future cooperative vehicle applications using cellular mobile
communication technologies. Five partners out of the telecommunications-
and automotive industry develop platform independent communication
protocols and innovative system components. They will be prototyped,
implemented and validated in selected applications. Innovation
perspectives and potential future network enhancements of cellular
systems for supporting cooperative, intelligent vehicles will be
identified and demonstrated.
In a
first step, potential application scenarios will be specified, data
flows and information content analysed, communication requirements
of cellular C2C and C2I applications
identified. Traffic and
communication models will be worked out.
A
network load and latency simulator will be developed. The simulator
behaviour will be verified against a broad spectrum of telematics
applications and related communication models. The simulation results
will constitute the foundations for consecutive technical feasibility
studies. The results shall also identify upcoming demands for cellular
network evolutions. Extensible multi-party vehicular application
protocols for global deployments will be worked out and evaluated in
scope of the project.
CoCar is a project
within the Aktiv framework. Although CoCar is an independent project
funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) a
close cooperation with the other two projects Aktiv-AS and -VM (funded
by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology - BMWi) has been
established. The results achieved in the projects will be demonstrated
in a joint presentation after about two years of research work.
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