Testing of an FPGA Based C2X-Communication Prototype with a Model Based Traffic Generation

While research and standardization in the area of car-to-X (C2X) communication gains interest steadily, realizationand integration in On-Board-Units (OBU) becomes an issue.Lacking existing testbeds, the evaluation, test, and rapid prototypingof such systems relies on stimulation from simulatedenvironments. We present an extension of an open-sourcetraffic simulation to allow generation of C2X communicationmessages and linking to a hardware OBU. Implementationof the system and application for evaluation and test of aFPGA-based C2X communication system is described.