Open source testbed for vehicular communication

Abstract

The challenge of enabling the communications between the vehicle and its surroundings is being faced by the entire automotive industry, while the main standardization bodies are undergoing a huge effort to propose new solutions and improve the existing ones. The lack of open source solutions for vehicular communications penalizes the technology advances, and for this reason we present an open source platform based on PC Engines' boards and Unex's WNICs for the testing of V2X (vehicle-to-everything) applications. Our platform enables the connectivity over a 802.11p channel between two boards that can be deployed as wireless dongles, so it can be used to extend the network capabilities of any kind of computing system. The testbed has been setup to work with several applications: from video streaming, to online gaming, to a containerized version of a latency tester, called LaTe.