Opportunistic Wireless Internet Access in Vehicular Environments Using Enhanced WAVE Devices

In this paper we study the feasibility of providing automotive users the Internet access using C2C communication with help of roadside infrastructure and the novel Vehicular Communication Gateways (VCG), which is developed in the MYCAREVENT project. A technical solution of managing the opportunistic wireless links between On-Board Units (OB Us) and Road-Side Units (RSUs), as well as between OB Us and VCGs, is developed based on WA VE system. To further enhance the performance of WA VE system concerning IP traffic in highly dynamic vehicular environments we propose a link status aware MAC queue architecture. Stochastic simulation results are presented to prove the concepts and validate the proposed solutions.