Boundary of Fifteen Compression algorithm for Controller Area Network based automotive applications

Data Reduction (DR) algorithms can play very important role in case of in-vehicle networks. The information exchanged between Electronic Control Units (ECUs) on Controller Area Network (CAN) tends to become large. This is due to increase in number of ECUs on the bus. CAN bus with its limited bandwidth may get overloaded due to increase in data traffic. In this paper authors propose new DR algorithm namely, Boundary of Fifteen Compression (BFC) algorithm. It is shown that, BFC provides improvement in compression ratio as compared to earlier proposed Quotient Remainder Compression (QRC) algorithm and Enhanced Data Reduction (EDR) algorithm. Also BFC is less computation intensive as compared to QRC and EDR.