Vehicular communications: from DSRC to Cellular V2X

Thesis abstract Vehicular communication technologies have been increasingly spread in the last decades. They have been studied and deployed, altought they will not find a com- mercial solution before 2020. The concept of Intelligent Transport System and ve- hicular networks, alongside the one of smart city, is one of the biggest achievement of technology in the field of vehicular safety, environment health and commercial convenience. This evolution is brought on by a big technology, that recently made another step. Cellular V2X is the possibility of a vehicular network to relay (partially or totally) on a cellular network, already deployed, therefore stable, and bring to users several advantages and novelties. Some of these novelties can be found in the coverage itself of the network that can be potentially bigger than the one of DSRC network, the possibility of getting contents and infotainment for the vehicle (connecting to the cellular network), the D2D connectivity among devices that doesn’t rely on the network architecture like in the regular infrastructure communication, and so much more. This thesis work presents in a detailed way each of this features, considering the passage from the DSRC, a vehicular technology mainly built on a similar Wi-Fi standard, to the brand new Cellular V2X. The last part of the thesis is developed around the simulation of an LTE network with an object based simulator for the company Magneti Marelli SpA, studying different parameters for a future deploy- ment of it.