Supporting Multiple Cooperative Applications through Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications

Cooperative applications open new trends for enhancing various vehicle functions through distributed applications. Localization and perception are among the most important functions for vehicular applications, ranging from navigation, active safety and autonomous driving. Recently, several work presented new approaches that make the vehicles cooperate through vehicle-to-vehicle communications in order to enhance these functions. The resulting cooperative localization and collective perception applications have been evaluated individually using V2V communications. However, in real-world applications, these cooperative applications will be supported simultaneously, and they will have to share network communication capacity. This work evaluates the performance that these two applications can expect from V2V communication services using the CBL (Chain-Branch-Leaf) clustering scheme, when they operate simultaneously. The simulation results show the packet delivery ratios and average delays achieved at IP level for both applications regarding various rates of their respective traffic.