摘要: |
While the vehicle-infrastructure integration (VII) concept has been in existence for a decade, its operational model and implementation strategy remain unclear. What is clear is that VII, if designed to meet its full expectations, must be able to support such applications as incident management, congestion, mitigation, air pollution management, driving assistance, and disaster evacuation. However, fully realizing this vision involves meeting challenges beyond establishing communication links among VII components. New operational algorithms and higher-layer protocols must be developed in view of the heterogenous devices, contexts, and wireless technologies that are involved, and the specific missions that must be achieved. Given the expected large scale of the VII system and ever increasing metropolitan areas, the traditional centralized operational concepts have become too costly to implment, maintain, and protect from threats. This research will develop a prototype for a hierarchical VII system with distributed decision making and reliable distributed networking that adequately accommodates future sophisticated VII applications. |