In-car Gateway Architecture for Intra and Inter-vehicular Networks

Abstract

Vehicular networking is an enabling technology that promises a huge advancement in the field of Intelligent Transport System (ITS)and mobile networks. Vehicular Ad hoc NetworK (VANET) is emerging quickly as a new architecture that is based on V2X communications. Vehicles are equipped with Electronic Control Units (ECUs) which are interconnected via various intra-vehicle networks (e.g., LIN, CAN, Ethernet, MOST, and FlexRay). Accordingly, a communication gateway is required to facilitate interfacing between the different vehicular environment components. To the best of our knowledge, contributions in this area are very limited. In this context, this paper proposes a new In-car gateway architecture for the Intra and Inter vehicular networks in order to perform the required specifications for V2X communications.