A brief status update: With the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge over (until the next edition) I am focusing on getting my thesis together during the summer. In it I look not only at how high-frequency short-range wireless communication between vehicles can be utilized to improve for example traffic safety but also at how to address the unreliability of such wireless links. I believe higher-level "awareness" of the communication environment is the way to go to enable applications to adapt to degradations in communication quality.It turns out that a large proportion of situations in which vehicle-to-vehicle communication fails are site-specific and pretty "mappable". In the paper I am finishing up now we show how maps of the radio environment can be built collaboratively by vehicles in the network and also how to evaluate application requirements using a radio map.
After the summer there are many new adventures lined up, but for now have a great summer!
