Preliminary Results of EEBL System for the Smartphone VANET

Abstract

The Smartphone VANET (Vehicle Ad-Hoc NETwork) is a novel idea to combat the issue of low hardware adoption for dedicated VANET hardware. However, there are many differences between the smartphone and the dedicated hardware it will replace. To account for these differences’ applications have to be designed specifically with the advantages and drawbacks of the smartphone in mind, especially in the case of safety applications. To this end an Emergency Electronic Brake Light (EEBL) application has been developed for the Smartphone VANET (SVANET) to test the feasibility of safety applications on the SVANET. In this paper, we test the EEBL application in a simulation environment, and present the preliminary results.