Large field test of VANET from academic research project in Portugal

here are the interesting research with field test benches developed in Instituto de Telecomunicações:

http://www.av.it.pt/a.cardote/media/

More interestingly, the researchers have planed a large scale field trial of IEEE 802.11p based VANET involving 400+ taxis in Porto ;-) For more details, please their speech on RTCM 2011.

RTCM_1_Jul_11_s4p2.pdf

New 802.11p/DSRC mini/PCI module DCMA-86P2 from Unex

Unex announce their first WiFi mini PCI module to comply with IEEE 802.11p/DSRC standard for V2V, V2R communication applications.

According to the data sheet of DCMA-86P2, it can work with 40, 20, 10 and 5MHz bandwith and support up to 24dBm average power. Supported security schemes include
•64-bit, 128-bit and 152-bit WEP encryption
•802.1x authentication
•AES-CCM & TKIP encryption
•CCX3.0

The module could work with MADWiFi Linux as well as Windows.

I would be intereting to see how the IEEE 1609 protocol stack is supported by this WiFi module. But so far I have no information on hand about this :-(

For more information and the data sheet of DCMA-86P2, please see:
http://www.unex.com.tw/product/dcma-86p2