Service Management for ITS Using WAVE (1609.3) Networking

Automotive networking on US highways is moving into high gear. Smart cars, connected vehicles, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET), and vehicle telematics represent parallel and overlapping technologies and services that will define the future of the American roadway systems. The integration of computing technology and expanding communication services is driving the growing research and development efforts to integrate vehicles and roadway telematic services to improve preventive vehicle safety, reduce traffic congestion, and enable new applications for vehicle maintenance and commercial services. Industrial and governmental efforts are underway to accelerate the introduction of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications functions. In the United States these major ITS projects have included US DOT IntelliDrive, CAMP/VSC-2; SafeTrip21, IEEE WAVE, California PATH, and the Connected Vehicle Proving Center (CVPC). An Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technical architecture for Service Management has been developed based on IEEE 1609 Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) standards for secure vehicle-tovehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure wireless communication. This study defines an ITS Service Management model based on the networking (IEEE 1609.3), and security (IEEE 1609.2) protocols. An examination of the working model demonstrates the use of a 1609.3 Provider Service Identifier (PSID) to provision and secure ITS services and applications using the D SRC/WAVE communication stack.