Active Safety Evaluation in Car-to-Car Networks

Currently, the main purpose in car-to-car networks is to improve communication performance. In order to prove this, we need a tool to evaluate statistical values such as the number of vehicles that have received the information, time of reception of the message, etc. In this study, we demonstrate how it is possible to simulate real scenarios with car-to-car technology and evaluate all traffic parameters obtained in simulations with hundreds of vehicles that receive alert signals for specific events. We will simulate one traffic accident both in a highway and in a urban scenario with different traffic patterns and we will analyze how data are received by the cars that are located in the coverage range. Thus, we can know the topology deficiencies in certain situations and in which situations, for example, it is possible to provide Road Side Units (RSU) or Public Hot Spot (PHS) units to perform network messages.