ICCOMQS: Intelligent measuring framework to ensure reliable communication for highly automated vehicles

To ensure the safety of their passengers highly automated vehicles have to rely on a robust and reliable data connection via cellular communication. Issues related to the changing connectivity due to the mobility of the vehicles have to be anticipated. To solve these issues, we present ICCOMQS, a framework that enables the intelligent distribution of active measurements of the cellular network. These measurements are performed while uploading collected sensor data and downloading updates by the vehicles. Thus our framework enables an innovative hybrid measurement approach, which provides detailed connectivity information without any additional transmission costs, normally introduced by additional probing data. Furthermore a personally developed set of algorithms is investigated to distribute the measurements intelligently, which achieve an improved coverage area (up to 106%) with less data (up to 67%) to be transmitted in comparison to a baseline distribution approach.