Continuous Connectivity
Handover situations, such as present in infrastructure-supported cooperative perception use cases such as automated valet parking (AVP) or camera-equipped intersections, are especially taxing with respect to enabling reliable and timely data exchange. The mobile nature of vehicles inherently leads to the need for roaming across multiple access points (APs), as shadowing by stationary (e.g., walls, vegetation, …) and dynamic (e.g., other vehicles, …) obstacles will occur frequently, especially in case high-data rate technologies are used. This is already the case if small messages are exchanged, and becomes even more challenging if large object data streams with stringent real-time and reliability constraints are considered. Nevertheless, reliable and continuous sample exchange needs to be ensured in order to enable the corresponding use cases.
Continuous Multi-Access Communication for Large Object Streams
To address the issues of traditional handover mechanisms and enable continuous connectivity for applications streaming large data objects a continuous connectivity approach has been developed.
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A real-world testbed for handover scenarios is currently being designed. Experimental results evaluating the performance of the proposed continuous connectivity approach using said testbed will be published here once the setup has been completed.
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