Integrating LP-WAN Communications within the Vehicular Ecosystem

  1. Ramon Sanchez-Iborra 1
  2. Jesus Sánchez-Gómez 1
  3. José Santa 1
  4. Pedro J. Fernández 1
  5. Antonio F. Skarmeta 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Actas:
2nd International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security (MobiSec’17)

Año de publicación: 2017

Tipo: Aportación congreso

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Resumen

Vehicular communications are attracting the attention of both the academy and industry since sometime ago. Most of the developed services rely on short-range communication technologies or onnon-vehicular oriented cellular solutions such as 4G. In turn, during the last times a long-rangetransmission technology known as Low Power – Wide Area Network (LP-WAN) has gained greatmomentum. LP-WAN solutions such as LoRa (Long Range) promise long coverage ranges of about10 km with very low power consumption. Since these features can improve the performance of manyvehicular services, in this work the application of LoRa to the case of vehicular communicationsis explored. The two typical vehicular network architectures, namely, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure andVehicle-to-Vehicle, are considered. The results, extracted from an experimental test-bench, showlong coverage ranges never seen previously in vehicular environments. This opens the opportunityfor developing novel services and applications in this growing ecosystem.