Performance evaluation of 802.11p device for secure vehicular communication

The emerging vehicular communications will enable a variety of applications for safety, traffic efficiency, driver assistance and infotainment. Due to high vehicular speed, sporadic connection, limited communication range, and large volume of data that need to be transmitted, vehicular communications have the stringent requirement of real-time vehicular communications. This paper presents our tests with 802.11p device and presents its performance evaluation in terms of throughput, loss rate, communication range and resending rate. The experimental results show that the 802.11p device can achieve real-time vehicular communications and is suitable for the applications with medium throughput, and a few hundred meters of communication range.