Vehicle Safety Communications Project Executive Overview November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium CAMP IVI Light Vehicle Enabling Research Program Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium CAMP IVI Light Vehicle Enabling Research Program

2 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Briefing Agenda 10:00 – 11:00Executive Overview (F. Ahmed-Zaid, G. Peredo) Task 4: Refinement of Vehicle Safety Applications 11:15 – 11:35 - Overview (H. Krishnan) 11:35 – 12:00 - Field Testing (J. Bauer) 12:00 – 1:00Lunch Task 4: (continued) 1:00 – 1:25- Field Testing (E. Clark) 1:00 – 1:25- Field Testing (E. Clark) 1:25 – 1:45- Simulation Testing (D. Jiang) 1:25 – 1:45- Simulation Testing (D. Jiang) 1:45 – 2:00Task 5: Participate in and Coordinate with DSRC Standards Committees and Groups (T. Schaffnit) 1:45 – 2:00Task 5: Participate in and Coordinate with DSRC Standards Committees and Groups (T. Schaffnit) 2:00 – 2:45Task 6: Test and Validation of DSRC Capabilities 2:00 – 2:45Task 6: Test and Validation of DSRC Capabilities - Subproject 6A: Protocol Research (D. Jiang) - Subproject 6B: Security (E. Clark) - Subproject 6C: Antenna (S. Tengler)

3 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium VSC Project l Two-year program began May 2002 l VSC Consortium Members: BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Nissan, Toyota, and VW l Facilitate the advancement of vehicle safety through communication technologies u Identify and evaluate the safety benefits of vehicle safety applications enabled or enhanced by communications u Assess communication requirements, including vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure modes u Contribute to DSRC standards and ensure they effectively support safety

4 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium VSC Project Tasks l Task 1 - Literature Review l Task 2 - Analyze the DSRC Standards Development Process l Task 3 - Identify Intelligent Vehicle Safety Applications Enabled by DSRC l Task 4 - Refine Vehicle Safety Application Communications Requirements l Task 5 - Participate in and Coordinate with DSRC Standards Committees and Groups l Task 6 - Test and Validate DSRC Capabilities l Task 7 - Summary l Task 8 - Program Management

5 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Completed Tasks 1, 2 & 3 l Task 1: u Reviewed available published DOT and OEM literature for communications-based vehicle safety applications l Task 2: u Prepared roadmap of anticipated DSRC standards (roadmap is updated in Task 5) u Provided DOT with synchronized VSC project timeline l Task 3: u Identified communications-based vehicle safety applications u Selected high potential benefit applications for further research

6 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Safety Applications Communications Between Vehicles  Approaching Emergency Vehicle Warning  Blind Spot Warning  Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control  Cooperative Collision Warning  Cooperative Forward Collision Warning  Cooperative Vehicle-Highway Automation System  Emergency Electronic Brake Lights  Highway Merge Assistant  Lane Change Warning  Post-Crash Warning  Pre-Crash Sensing  Vehicle-Based Road Condition Warning  Vehicle-to-Vehicle Road Feature Notification  Visibility Enhancer  Wrong Way Driver Warning Communications Between Vehicle and Infrastructure  Blind Merge Warning  Curve Speed Warning – Rollover Warning  Emergency Vehicle Signal Preemption  Highway/Rail Collision Warning  Intersection Collision Warning  In Vehicle Amber Alert  In-Vehicle Signage  Just-In-Time Repair Notification  Left Turn Assistant  Low Bridge Warning  Low Parking Structure Warning  Pedestrian Crossing Information at Intersection  Road Condition Warning  Safety Recall Notice  SOS Services  Stop Sign Movement Assistance  Stop Sign Violation Warning  Traffic Signal Violation Warning  Work Zone Warning

7 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Highest Ranking Safety Applications l Benefit opportunity 5th year after deployment l 17M new vehicles/year equipped (of 210M total) l Effectiveness derived from “44 Crashes” Near Term (2007 – 2011) Mid Term (2012 – 2016)

8 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Basic Communications Requirements l Defined communications parameters that include: u Types of Communications (one-way, two-way, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint) u Transmission Mode (event-driven, periodic) u Update Rate u Allowable Latency (communication delay) u Data to be Transmitted and/or Received (message content) u Required Range of Communication l Specified communications parameters based on engineering judgment and industry experience

9 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Preliminary Communications Requirements for High-Priority Application Scenarios Traffic Signal Violation Warning Curve Speed Warning Emergency Electronic Brake Lights Pre-Crash Warning Cooperative Forward Collision Warning Left Turn Assistant Lane Change Warning Stop Sign Movement Assistance Types of Communication one-way, point- multipoint two-way, point-point one-way, point- multipoint Transmission Mode periodic event-driven periodic Update Rate (Hz) Allowable Latency (milliseconds) Data to be Transmitted and/or Received (bytes) 528 I-V381 I-V288 V-V435 V-V once 283 V-V repeat 419 V-V840 I-V, (208 V-I) 288 V-V416 I-V, (208 V-I) Required Range of Communication (meters)

10 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Comparison of Wireless Technologies

11 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Task 3 Summary l For high potential benefit safety applications u Defined system level concepts of operation u Refined communications requirements l DSRC appears to have the potential to support safety communications requirements u Low latency ( ms) u Transmission of broadcast messages u Adequate range (up to 300 m) u Adequate data rate (up to 27 Mbps) l Latency requirements for safety applications do not appear to be achievable with other available wireless communications technologies

12 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Task 4 - Refinement of Vehicle Safety Communications Requirements l Designed and assembled 20 communications test kits (including DGPS units) for VSC field testing l Developed data collection software and analysis tools (now at v2.7) to conduct tests l Developed test plan with representative test scenarios l Conducted field testing on test track and public roadways l Analyzed data from field testing l Developed simulation test tool for DSRC protocol investigations

13 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Test Equipment l VSC Communication Test Kits (CTKs)  Laptops with a card  DGPS receivers  Magmount DSRC and DGPS antennas  Portable implementation

14 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Test Kit vs. DSRC Standard CTK S/W v2.3 CTK S/W v2.7 DSRC Standard 25/50 mW default antenna input power settings Up to 100 mW programmable antenna input power Up to 750 mW variable antenna input power , GHz , , GHz GHz Auto channel select Selectable channel Channel switching 20 MHz channel 10 MHz channel IEEE ad hoc DSRC ad hoc 6-54 Mbps 3-27 Mbps

15 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Test Scenarios One Dynamic Antenna (OBU) One Static Antenna (RSU) Two Dynamic Antennas (OBU ’ s) Two Static Antennas Multiple Sending Antennas Sender Receiver Obstructer Legend:

16 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Test Plan Structure

17 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Actual Road Testing Test Track Public Roads l Controlled environment testing: Test tracks l Real Traffic Conditions: Highways, rural, arterial, and residential roads in the Palo Alto and Detroit areas (various traffic densities, curves, hills, bridges, etc.)

18 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Freeway Testing: Example Receiver lane change PU Truck obstruction SUV & sedans obstruction SUV obstruction Dense Traffic Large Truck obstruction GPS outages under overpasses Video Clips Received Packets Lost Packets Range (m) Graph Legend: Accumulated Received Packets sender

19 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Moving Vehicle Testing: Example l Sender and receiver vehicles pass each other at 50 mph l 400-bytes message size, every ~ 50 msec (stress configuration) l No packet loss Receiver Sender

20 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Simulation Testing l Used simulation test environment to investigate vehicle scenarios too large for real world testing l Initial investigations centered on determining the effectiveness of proposed IEEE priority mechanisms for vehicle safety u Early results indicate priority mechanism works well to get safety messages transmitted consistently before lower priority messages u Significant difference with/without priorities evident in the more stressing simulation runs

21 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Field Testing Observations l Line of sight, single transmitter-receiver communication is robust for a variety of vehicle-vehicle and vehicle infrastructure safety applications u Range (300m), update rate (10-20 Hz), and latency requirements ( ms) of Task 3 safety applications were met in preliminary tests u Better than expected performance with SUV/Van obstructions u Degraded performance, as expected, under obstructions from large trucks and buildings/terrain. More testing and analysis is required l Areas for future study include transmission power variation, and multi-sender, multi-receiver scenarios

22 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Outline l VSC Project Background, Project Tasks & Deliverables l Tasks 1, 2, 3 and 4 Progress and Findings l Tasks 5 and 6 Progress and Findings l Summary and Next Steps

23 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Task 5 - Participate in and Coordinate with DSRC Standards Committees l Lower layer DSRC standard - ASTM to IEEE u Benefit – IEEE credibility and acceptance u Issue – potential for delayed approval (possibly 2005) u FCC rulemaking currently follows precursor ASTM standard, but may cause delay if IEEE changes necessitate revision l Upper layer DSRC standards being developed in another IEEE committee l DSRC security standard development in another IEEE committee l VSCC actively participating in these DSRC standards development activities

24 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Additional DSRC Standards Progress l VSCC provided information to new Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) working group u AAM defining DSRC standard vehicle message set u Intended for SAE vehicle safety messaging standard l SAE formed new committee to develop message set and data dictionary standard for DSRC (first meeting 12/03) l VSCC plans to participate in this SAE standards development activity

25 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Task 6A - Protocol Research Subproject l Develops informed VSC recommendations to create efficient, robust, and reliable communications protocol l Focuses on how to improve broadcast reliability in various traffic conditions l Status u Test kit enhanced for collecting received signal strength data u Initial enhancement of DSRC simulator ready and in use u Mathematical framework under discussion u Simulation tests for various broadcast reliability enhancements in development

26 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Task 6B - Security Subproject l Addressing greater security consequences for vehicle safety communications l Participating in IEEE P1556 working group meetings u VSCC leading security for safety applications l Created vehicle safety communications threat model and outline of security services l Defining security solution constraints l Starting description of security architecture and protocol

27 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Task 6C - Antenna Subproject l Developing optimized antennas for DSRC l Determine antenna performance and placement requirements per lower layer standards and OEM guidance l Design and characterize antenna variants optimized for 5.9 GHz DSRC l Build reference antennas for DSRC research l Supplier selected, now developing candidate designs l Target March ’04 completion

28 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Outline l VSC Project Background, Project Tasks & Deliverables l Tasks 1, 2, 3 and 4 Progress and Findings l Tasks 5 and 6 Progress and Findings l Summary and Next Steps

29 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Summary l VSCC is encouraged by the testing to date l Initial tests indicate that DSRC can perform well in most of the conditions examined in the current testing: u The expected degradation from large vehicles, structures, and terrain obstructions was observed in some cases. It is not expected this will have a severe impact on safety applications u More testing and research is planned to examine additional conditions l Simulation testing is underway l The transition to the IEEE lower layer standard has benefits, but also some risks l The VSC project continues to have a positive impact on the focus and progress of DSRC standards development

30 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium Next Steps l Continue field testing to complete defined test scenarios and validate/refine communications requirements l Continue simulation testing to understand and refine communication mechanisms in dense traffic environments l Continue active standards participation to ensure developing standards effectively support safety l Design candidate security architecture and protocol to address threat model and constraints l Develop optimized DSRC vehicle antenna reference designs

31 November 4, 2003 Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium 10:00 – 11:00Executive Overview (F. Ahmed-Zaid, G. Peredo) Task 4: Refinement of Vehicle Safety Applications 11:15 – 11:35 - Overview (H. Krishnan) 11:35 – 12:00 - Field Testing (J. Bauer) 12:00 – 1:00Lunch Task 4: (continued) 1:00 – 1:25- Field Testing (E. Clark) 1:00 – 1:25- Field Testing (E. Clark) 1:25 – 1:45- Simulation Testing (D. Jiang) 1:25 – 1:45- Simulation Testing (D. Jiang) 1:45 – 2:00Task 5: Participate in and Coordinate with DSRC Standards Committees and Groups (T. Schaffnit) 1:45 – 2:00Task 5: Participate in and Coordinate with DSRC Standards Committees and Groups (T. Schaffnit) 2:00 – 2:45Task 6: Test and Validation of DSRC Capabilities 2:00 – 2:45Task 6: Test and Validation of DSRC Capabilities - Subproject 6A: Protocol Research (D. Jiang) - Subproject 6B: Security (E. Clark) - Subproject 6C: Antenna (S. Tengler) Briefing Agenda