Abstract
Cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) across Europe requires harmonized solutions to support cross-border seamless operation. The possibility of providing CCAM services across European countries has an enormous innovative business potential. However, the seamless provision of connectivity and the uninterrupted delivery of real-time services pose technical challenges which 5G technologies aim to solve. The situation is particularly challenging given the multi-country, multi-operator, multi-telco-vendor, multi-car-manufacturer and cross-network-generation scenario of any cross-border scenario. Motivated by this, the 5GCroCo project, with a total budget of 17 million Euro and partially funded by the European Commission, aims at validating 5G technologies in the Metz-Merzig-Luxembourg cross-border 5G corridor considering the borders between France, Germany and Luxembourg. The activities of 5GCroCo are organized around three use cases: (1) Tele-operated Driving, (2) high-definition map generation and distribution for automated vehicles and (3) Anticipated Cooperative Collision Avoidance (ACCA). The results of the project help contribute to a true European transnational CCAM. This paper describes the overall objectives of the project, motivated by the discussed challenges of cross-border operation, the use cases along with their requirements, the technical 5G features that will be validated and provides a description of the planned trials within 5GCroCo together with some initial results.
Highlights
For the tele-operated driving (ToD) use case, first validation tests of the system and Key performance indicator (KPI) collection in a commercial 4G/Long-term evolution (LTE) network were performed, in which results are presented in the following
9 Summary This paper has summarized the main goals and activities conducted in 5G cross-border control (5GCroCo), just before the initiation of trials. 5GCroCo is an Innovation Action, partially funded by the European Commission, where key European partners from both the telco and automotive industries join efforts to trial and validate 5G technologies at large scale in a crossborder setting with the mission to reduce uncertainties before connected and automated mobility (CCAM) services running on top of 5G communication infrastructures can be offered to the market
The main KPIs for these uses cases have been introduced in this paper, and the validation along the trials focuses on assessing the suitability of 5G to meet those requirements
Summary
The exchange of information among vehicles, pedestrians and road infrastructure—facilitated by the so-called V2X (vehicle-to-anything) communications—allows extending the vision and detection range of on-board sensors even when visual lineof-sight (LoS) is not available due to obstacles, geometry or weather conditions. This extension of sensing capabilities leads to the possibility of making smarter decisions and allowing vehicles to actuate in a highly automated manner, reducing human error and boosting safety, driving efficiency and passenger comfort
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