Poster: Insights on communication range and capacity requirements of automated vehicles

Afcsiraci-Autonomous/automated vehicles are envisioned to improve traffic safety and efficiency while also reducing environmental impact. While most development has focused on autonomous systems that rely on ego-sensors to make their own decisions, communicating and cooperating with other vehicles and with infrastructure will offer enormous potential. In this paper we look into communication range and capacity requirements of automated vehicles. The results obtained show that fully automated vehicles may eventually require a lower communication range than non-automated vehicles thanks to the reduction in reaction times. In addition, we also analyze the communication capacity required by automated vehicles through an estimation of the vehicle density. Based on existing studies illustrating the increase in road capacity, we derive communication capacity requirements for automated vehicles. Future work will look into application level and link level latency and reliability requirements analysis.