Vehicular Communication Testbeds

Several vehicular communication testbeds are available at our institute for the characterization of real-world Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure links from measurements.

Our testbeds:

• CVIS nodes (3 pieces), operable in the 2,45 GHz and 5,2-6,0 GHz bands with 10 MHz bandwidth, capable of selection combining using one Tx antenna and two Rx antennas.

• MIMOon testbed (2 pieces), operable in the 2,45 GHz and 5,2-6,0 GHz bands, capable of 2×2 MIMO transmission with 20 MHz bandwidth.

• National Instruments USRP RIO hardware (3 pieces) for software defined radio (SDR), operable 120 MHz – 6,0 GHz with up to 40 MHz of bandwidth, capable of 2×2 MIMO transmission.

• Various commercial-off-the-shelf V2X modems from a selection of manufacturers.

Key performance indicators which are assessable by measurements in real-world vehicular scenarios include packet transmission reliability, jitter, data rate, packet latency statistics, as well as coverage areas, the influence of weather conditions, road traffic, robustness to Doppler.

Further, we developed a realtime V2X radio channel emulator for performance evaluation of cooperative intelligent transport applications using communications in the 5,9 GHz band. The emulator enables virtual drive tests in non-stationary vehicular scenarios and runs on a single National Instruments USRP RIO hardware node.

 

Selected References

• Thomas Blazek, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker, Golsa Ghiaasi-Hafezi, Dieter Smely, Mehdi Ashury:
  Vehicular Channel Models: A System Level Performance Analysis of Tapped Delay Line Models
  in Proc. 2017 15th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2017), Warsaw, Poland; May 29–31, 2017; ISBN: 978-1-5090-5274-5; 8 pages
• Golsa Ghiaasi-Hafezi, Mehdi Ashury, Dimitrios Vlastaras, Markus Hofer, Zhinan Xu, and Thomas Zemen:
  Real-Time Vehicular Channel Emulator for Future Conformance Tests of Wireless ITS Modems
  in Proc. 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2016), Davos, Switzerland, April 2016
• Veronika Shivaldova, Andreas Winkelbauer, and Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Realistic Performance Model for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications
  in Proc. 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2014). Sydney, Aus- tralia, Sep. 7–10, 2014
• Veronika Shivaldova, Andreas Winkelbauer, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Vehicular Link Performance: From Real-World Experiments to Reliability Models and Performance Analysis
  IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 35–44, Dec. 2013. doi:10.1109/MVT.2013.2283133
• Veronika Shivaldova, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Real-World Measurements-based Evaluation of IEEE 802.11p System Performance
  in Proc. WiVec 2013, Dresden, Germany, Jun. 2, 2013
• Georg Maier, Alexander Paier, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Channel Tracking for a Multi-Antenna ITS System Based on Vehicle-to- Vehicle Tunnel Measurements
  in Proc. 19th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT 2012), Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nov. 16, 2012
• Veronika Shivaldova, Alexander Paier, Dieter Smely, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  On Roadside Unit Antenna Measurements for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications
  in Proc. 23rd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2012), Sydney, Australia, Sep. 9–12, 2012
• Georg Maier, Alexander Paier, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11p Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Real- World Measurements with Receive Diversity
  in Proc. IWCMC 2012, Vehicular Communications Symposium at 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2012- VehCom), Limassol, Cyprus, Aug. 27–31, 2012
• Veronika Shivaldova, Thomas Paulin, Alexander Paier, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Performance Measurements of Multi-hop Communications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
  in Proc. IEEE ICC 2012, Workshop on Intelligent Vehicular Networking: V2V/V2I Communications and Applications (WIVN), Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 11, 2012
• Arrate Alonso, Dieter Smely, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Throughput of Self-Organizing Time Division Multiple Access MAC Layer for Vehicular Networks based on measured SNR time-series
  in Proc. 4th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WIVEC 2011), San Francisco, USA, Sep. 5–6, 2011
• Veronika Shivaldova, Georg Maier, Dieter Smely, Nicolai Czink, Alexander Paier, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Performance Analysis of Vehicle-To-Vehicle Tunnel Measurements At 5.9 GHz
  in Proc. XXX URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 13–20, 2011
• Veronika Shivaldova, Georg Maier, Dieter Smely, Nicolai Czink, Arrate Alonso, Andreas Winkelbauer, Alexander Paier, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker:
  Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11p Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Tunnel Measurements
  in Proc. IEEE IWCMC 2011 Jul. 5–8, 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey

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Contact: Thomas BLAZEK, Univ.Ass. B.Sc. Dipl.-Ing.