Cooperative Overtaking Assistance System Based on V2V Communications and RTDB

Overtaking maneuvers in roads cause a large number of accidents. To prevent collisions, numerous cooperative overtaking assistance systems, based on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET), have been proposed. However, these systems may meet problems in case of data congestion or data loss. To improve overtaking safety, this paper studies the use of Vehicle-To-Vehicle (V2V) communications and Real-Time DataBases (RTDB). More precisely, we suggest a new integrated system, called Cooperative Overtaking Assistance Persistent System (COAPS), to better avoid potential collisions during overtaking maneuvers. Each vehicle stores its information in a local RTDB, along with the adjacent vehicles' information. While detecting an overtaking intention, the vehicle COAPS queries its database and selects the preceding vehicle(s) and the oncoming one(s) from the other direction to make decision about the overtaking. It controls the overtaking in case of positive decision or reduces the vehicle speed to avoid a collision ahead, in the other case. Simulations of different driving scenarios, under the Vehicles In Network Simulation (VEINS) framework, show that COAPS provides a high level of overtaking safety due to the V2V communications, the RTDB and the notion of Quality of Data used to reduce the number of data freshness transactions.