DOLPHIN for inter-vehicle communications system

Inter-vehicle communications (IVC) technology for group cooperative driving has been studied by the Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile Traffic and Driving (JSK) since 1980 in Japan. The study of the IVC technology has been focussed on the communication protocol. This paper proposes DOLPHIN (dedicated omni-purpose inter-vehicle communication linkage protocol for highway automation) and presents its performance evaluation results.