WiFi-AC Based Telecommunication Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicle in Limited Area

Autonomous vehicle requires telecommunication infrastructure to support their operations. WiFi technology is one of the available options to manifest it, and IEEE 802.11p is the communication standard for the autonomous vehicle. However, it is high cost and has low availability in some areas, and for implementation in a limited area, it is rather overpowering. This paper investigates the alternative for autonomous vehicle telecommunication infrastructure in a limited area, namely IEEE 802.11ac, as our proposal. We tested and measured our proposed telecommunication infrastructure with several scenarios and parameters, such as throughput, delay, jitter, and packet loss. The results showed that our proposal has a good performance for a simple autonomous vehicle operational platform in residential roads within an office area.