OwlBox: A Comparison of Processor Architecture and Software Runtime on Vehicle-to-Everything Communication for Intelligent Transportation Systems

The Kennesaw State University OwlBox is an open-source Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) transmitter/receiver based on a Linux Single Board Computer (SBC). The device can utilize popular programming languages to communicate on the licensed 5.9GHz spectrum. The packet reception and transmission speed for programs utilizing runtimes such as C, NodeJS, and Python [1] [2] are compared to determine a preferred runtime for different smart transportation use cases. The runtimes are compared through Packet Reception Rate (PRR) and Packet Reception Speed (PRS) on ARM and x86 processors using the same Network Interface Chip (NIC) repurposed from older laptop Wi-Fi cards.