A Scenario-Reconfigurable Simulator for Verifying Service-Oriented Cooperation Mechanisms and Policies of Connected Intelligent Vehicles

Abstract

With the emerging vehicular network and the possible diverse applications, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have been evolving to Cooperative ITS (C-ITS) with connected intelligent vehicles, and the topics in this field have raised more and more research interests recently. However, subjecting to the immaturity of V2X communication technology, the difficulty and high cost to deploy such large scale ITS with intelligent vehicles, emerging studies are stuck with the verification of these big C-ITS. As more and more expected, intelligent vehicles will play important roles in the future smart cities and societies, as diverse mobility carriers. Focusing on new features of these carriers, mainly covering cyber-physical fusion, vehicular networking, service-carrier and so on, one new ITS simulator QoS-CITS for such service-oriented C-ITS is designed and developed. To enhance the adaptability, a scenario reconfigurable architecture is firstly designed, in which scenes can be described via XML file. On this basis, the authors have implemented all reservation-based models of traffic objects, state-driven behaviors, cooperation mechanisms, and policies, which are proposed for service-oriented C-ITS. Through a series of experiments are conducted with different parameters and typical scenes, all simulation functions are efficiently verified. And finally, some important conclusions drawn from large amount of experiments via QoS-CITS are exhibited. It's important to note that, researchers can conduct various experiments, both the traditional Passing-Through-Intersection (PTI) problem and service-oriented cooperation, via setting parameters of QoS-CITS according to their requirements, and can also analyze the performance with statistics data recorded automatically.