The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) announces the publication of a tests and results report comparing DSRC and Cellular V2X (C-V2X) radio technologies for their suitability to deliver broadcast V2V (Vehicle-To-Everything) safety messages.

The main conclusion of the report confirms that C-V2X significantly outperformed DSRC in various key areas.

Reliable and timely radio performance is a crucial requirement that the transportation safety stakeholder community, including vehicle manufacturers, road infrastructure owner-operators, standardization bodies and regulators depend on to deliver critical safety applications.

 The V2V radio performance tests were conducted over a period spanning six months from March through September 2018. The test results reported here are intended to provide this community with an informed basis for making important decisions on the choice of the air interface to deliver standardized messages (e.g., Basic Safety Message or BSM). Therefore, great care was taken in the design, setup and execution of each experiment to ensure that environmental conditions (weather, time of day, temperature), RF parameters (antennas, power, cables), system integration details, and physical setup (track, obstructions, antenna placement) were consistent when comparing DSRC and C-V2X.

Read the full report here 

Read Key Findings Presentation here

From 22 until 25 October 2018, the global members and invited guests of the 5G Automotive Association will gather in Tokyo, Japan for its General Assembly and Working Groups meeting.

At this occasion, the 5GAA will organise in collaboration with the 5GMF a full day workshop and roundtable on 25 October at the Hilton Tokyo Odaiba.

5GMF (5G Mobile Communications Promotion Forum) is a forum where Japanese 5G stakeholders exchange ideas to bring 5G into reality and was established in 2014:

• To promote the necessary research and development for 5G;
• To facilitate standardization related to 5G;
• To cooperate and collaborate with other 5G-related organizations; and
• To disseminate information to raise awareness on 5G.

5GAA (5G Automotive Association) is a global, cross-industry organisation bringing together the automotive and telecommunications industries. Since its creation in 2016, 5GAA has rapidly grown and counts 100 key players with a global footprint representing all major industry players around the world.

For more information, contact secretariat@5gaa.org

On 17 October at 5PM (CET) 5GAA sponsored an exclusive webinar on Talking Cars: Field Test Results Comparing DSRC & C-V2X Technology.

Register here to access the webinar recording

According to World Health Organization figures, more than 1.2 million casualties occur globally as a result of traffic incidents. As vehicles add more sensors to improve safety and advance the readiness of automated driving, vehicle-to-everything communications (V2X) are expected to significantly enhance road safety. As a result, global governments and industry (automotive and telecom) are carefully evaluating two different V2X technologies: IEEE 802.11p-based radio DSRC/ITS-G5 and 3GPP-based C-V2X. 802.11p is an older radio technology, based on specifications dating to 1999, and has been researched over the past decade, whereas C-V2X is a newer radio technology benefiting from many advances in communications.

This 5GAA-sponsored webinar will review how each of the technologies performed in an apples-to-apples comparison, executed by Ford and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc in US lab and field testing.

This webinar agenda included:

1. The reliability, communication range and latency of each V2X technology under the same test conditions
2. Performance comparison in congested environments
3. Resiliency of each technology to adverse deployment conditions, including interference

Speakers:

Steve Bell, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Maxime Flament, CTO, 5GAA
Gautam Savarkar, Senior Director, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc
Ivan Vukovic, Technical Specialist, Ford Motor Company

Register here to access the webinar recording

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) was invited as a special guest at the 2018 World Internet of Things (IoT) Expo, scheduled from Sept 15-18 2018. The Expo themed on “Digitalized New Economy, IoT-driven New Times”, included a large ministerial summit, 10 high-level fora, a large exhibition, and series of 16 sponsored events.

Wuxi is one of the major Chinese city who have started V2X deployment in China. In total, more than 220 intersections and hundreds of road-side sensors are already connected to a city-wide cloud. All intersections send their signal phase and timing via the China Mobile LTE network as well as via short-range LTE-V2X PC5 connectivity. The WIoT2018 gathered ten vehicle manufacturers among them Audi, SAIC, FORD, Peugeot-Citroen, Volvo Cars, Volkswagen, Donfeng, GM, Toyota, etc. Many vehicle application were using primarily the mobile network while others were combining both cellular and short-range PC5 communication. Road-side and in-vehicle connectivity was mainly provided by chipset and radio technology vendor HUAWEI but others like Qualcomm and Datang were actively contributing to the demonstration.

5GAA CTO, Dr. Maxime Flament, gave a keynote at the high-level Intelligent Transportation & Internet of Vehicles Forum. He insisted on the importance of the C-V2X deployment in Wuxi city as a model deployment for many government even outside China. It is important that the evaluation done in Wuxi can reach out to all government in the world in order to encourage a harmonized deployment of V2X around the world. The audience showed a great interest for C-V2X technology combining both vehicle short-range and cloud connectivity.

The vehicle manufacturers and their business partners are now preparing to the next big Chinese event sponsored by SAE China and IMT-2020: A large scale interoperability testing event on 6-8 Nov 2018 in Shanghai. Interoperability test will be performed at chipset, radio and vehicle application levels.

On 27 September, the 5G Automotive Association will plunge into the debate on technologies for road safety as it takes part in the Euractiv Forum “Safe EU Roads Thanks to Technology” as an event partner.

The EU aims at being a world leader for fully automated and connected transport systems, making it safer, cheaper and more accessible. In order to reduce the number of lives lost on EU roads, the EU Commission is currently conveying new models of vehicles equipped with advanced safety features. This initiative contributes to the EU’s long-term goal of moving close to zero fatalities and serious injuries by 2050.

As the Cellular-Vehicle-To Everything (C-V2X) technology and its evolution to 5G will enable life-saving communications, the forum will be a source of debate further reinforcing the discussion on the subject. The focus will encompass the cost of deploying the C-V2X technology, the path to 5G, the challenges associated with new technologies as well as the regulations ensuing from its development.

As a major association representing more than 100 companies from the automotive and telecommunications industries, 5GAA is proud to foster the debate among relevant stakeholders, driving towards building an enhanced 5G-driven regulated ecosystem.

Join us on Thursday 27 September from 17:00 to 20:00 at the Euractiv Network Office in Brussels and attend 5GAA’s CTO Maxime Flament Speech as he opens the Forum.

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) and its members took an active part in this year’s ITS World Congress, from 17-21 September in Copenhagen Denmark. More than 4000 participants including business managers, researchers, developers, and international decision-makers join the Congress.

For its first official participation, 5GAA was involved in several activities including :

• 17 Sept – LMT Workshop titled “Connected Europe – Green Transportation in 5G era” organised by LMT with the partnership of 5GAA
• 18 Sept – A dedicated 5G Special Interest Sessions (SIS 17) titled “Evolution from current Automotive connectivity and its deployments to 5G and 5G V2X” with members: Tim Leinmueller, DENSO, Roger Berg, DENSO, Johannes Springer, Deutsche Telekom AG, Takehiro Nakamura, NTT DOCOMO, Julius Mueller, AT&T, Stefano Sorrentino, Ericsson, Jovan Zagajac, Ford, Jim Misener, Qualcomm
• 18 Sept – A Special Interest Session (SIS 35) titled “Strategy of the practical implementation of V-I cooperative systems for traffic accident avoidance” with 5GAA CTO Dr. Maxime Flament.
• 17-20 Sept – 5 Special Interest Sessions (SIS 02, 36, 49, 54, 84)
• 18 Sept – Plenary 1  with Keynote Speaker Veni Shone, Huawei
• 20 Sept – Ertico Workshop titled “The role of 5G in Automation”

In addition to the list of impressive high-level speaking sessions, the association was also be represented in the exhibition area via members’ exhibition stand, such as Huawei, see picture below/

 

Organized by the Electronic Communication Office of Latvia in close cooperation with the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia, the Nordic Council of Ministers and other international partners – the Baltic Sea Region 5G Ecosystem Forum “5G Techritory” – one of the leading 5G events worldwide will be held on 27-28 September in Riga, Latvia.

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), as the key industry associations in this field, have now joined this esteemed list of organisational partners, and during the event 5GAA will be represented by the newly appointed Director-General Johannes Springer, who will be sharing insights in the transition towards 5G, focusing on both the technological and policy environment, now and in the future, as Europe transitions towards the of 5G communication technology.

As Europe actively works to become a leader at the forefront of the transition to use 5G technology in the areas of mobility, energy, and health, the Baltic Sea region is perfectly positioned to be a digital frontrunner in capturing the opportunities that 5G will present society with. Capacity for harnessing momentum in the development of 5G is already being established at great speed supported by both regulators and industry in China and the US, Europe must be no different, and the Baltic Sea Region is aiming to be central to this process, with 5G Techritory an important step in this direction.

The 5G Automotive Association are delighted to be an organisational partner in an event which will host several plenary sessions and roundtable discussions involving many key policy-makers at both national and EU level including:

• Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for the EU Digital Single Market,
• Roberto Viola, Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), European Commission
• Anne-Catherine Berner, Minister of Transport and Communications, Finland
• Urve Palo, Minister for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, Estonia

In addition to the list of impressive high-level plenary attendees, there will also be several parallel discussions focusing on Smart Cities, Smart Health and of course Smart Mobility, which all attendees and speakers will be invited to actively participate.

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) recently published a White Paper demonstrating their views on Vehicle-To-Everything (V2X) technologies as a key component to reduce the number of road accidents and enhance safety on our roads.

In the study, eight V2X use cases were chosen to reflect the three ITS application types: 1) road safety, 2) traffic management & efficiency and 3) infotainment. They encompassed various C-V2X communication methods such as Vehicle-To-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-To-Infrastructure (V2I), Vehicle-To-Pedestrian (V2P),  Infrastructure-To-Vehicle (I2V), Vehicle-To-Network-To-Vehicle (V2N2V), and Network-To-Vehicle (N2V).

Here are some of the key findings and conclusions of the NGMN as highlighted in the paper:

• To date, NGMN members have provided cellular connectivity to more than 30 million vehicles worldwide which are used for a variety of safety-related use cases (e.g. distribution safety-related jam warning, black ice warnings, etc.). It is expected that in the near future every vehicle will be equipped with cellular connectivity. This is a good and market-driven basis for further deployment of further C-V2X technology and services.
• With the finalization of 3GPP Rel. 14 specifications at the beginning of 2017, NGMN members now have a 3GPP standardized solution, which supports both long-range as well short-range communication, and which fulfills all the requirements of a C-ITS eco-system.
• After already ongoing tests, the technology will be deployed by 2020.
• NGMN believes that C-V2X is not only able to enhance safety features for vehicles, but also supports use cases for other traffic participants, like pedestrians and cyclists.
• NGMN has investigated and concluded that C-V2X technology is superior to IEEE 802.11p standards, technically, economically, and eco-system wise, and can well satisfy the basic safety applications…

Read the White Paper to find out more.

With the booming development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), an increasing number of regulators and governments around the globe pay attention to both technology and spectrum matters around ITS.

This white paper summarizes the status of ITS spectrum utilization in the Asia Pacific Region, with focus on Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia and China. Based on the ITS developments in the region, including business development, spectrum allocation and policy, the white paper provides recommendations on the choice of technology for ITS. The white paper also provides recommendations on the spectrum allocated for ITS applications based on direct vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications.

Read the full paper here.