Integrating Inter-Vehicle Communication with Roadside Wireless Access Points to Provide a Lower-Cost Message Broadcasting Service on Highways

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is an important research topic. One important function of ITS is to broadcast emergent traffic information to vehicles so that they can avoid a dangerous or congested zone in time. This paper investigates the use of inter-vehicle communication to assist roadside wireless access points to provide a lower-cost message broadcasting service on highways