CoP4V: Context-based protocol for vehicle's safety in highways using wireless sensor networks

Subramanian, Sattanathan; Djenouri, Djamel; Sindre, Guttorm; Balasingham, Ilangko

Abstract

Safety is evergreen vital criteria for road traffic. We propose an infrastructureless solution based on contexts to increase safety of vehicle. Contexts characterize and track the moving environment of a vehicle. Here, environment means the vehicle's own status like geographical position, break-control's functional status, driver's status etc., and the status of neighboring vehicles. Contexts make use of wireless sensors for getting the environmental data. Sensors feed their data continuously to contexts. Contexts keep them as system understandable information. The status of a vehicle is continuously broadcasted to other vehicles. Safety-decisions are derived based on contexts that are available in a vehicle. We have also provided an algorithm for our context-based solution. Finally, safety calculations are given for overtaking decisions through some linear equations. © 2009 IEEE.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
• Start Date: Apr 27, 2009
• End Date: Apr 29, 2009
• Online Publication Date: Jun 10, 2009
• Publication Date: Apr 29, 2009
• Deposit Date: Feb 27, 2020
• Pages: 613-618
• ISBN: 9781424437702
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/itng.2009.129
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5560367