IPv6 Communication Stack for Deploying Cooperative Vehicular Services

Abstract

New-age cooperative services for vehicles involve communication nodes in nomadic devices, vehicles, roads and central stations. However, as the number of vehicular services hosted in both the vehicle and infrastructure side increase, it is more and more necessary to use a proper framework to deploy them effectively using a common interconnection network. Following the ISO/ETSI recommendations, which provide a reference ITS communication architecture, the current work provides an implementation, deployment and experimental assessment of a vehicular communications stack for providing infrastructure-to-vehicle services. The architecture presented in this paper considers open issues such as communications security, the support of geo-referenced facilities, the need of a service deployment framework in vehicles and central stations, and the management of host software.