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DSRC Interoperability Study
  • Publication no: AP-R382-11
  • ISBN: 978-1-921709-72-2
  • Published: 24 May 2011

After an introduction to ITS and the wireless communication requirements for the different ITS applications, the report summarises the overseas radiocommunications regulatory arrangements supporting 5.9 ITS and describes the technical and system requirements for On Board Units (OBU) and Road Side Units (RSU) of 5.9 ITS. By assessing the various wireless access technologies for ITS, the report shows that there is a clear need in 5.9 GHz and future need in 700 MHz and 63 GHz to enhance 5.9 ITS. After a summary of relevant previous studies regarding interoperability between 5.9 ITS and other services in the 5.850 to 5.925 GHz band and its adjacent bands, this report summarises the Australian environment of frequency usage around 5.9 GHz, and analyses the interference of 5.9 ITS to existing services and vice versa.

  • 1. INTRODUCTION TO INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (TASK 2)
    • 1.1. Standards
      • 1.1.1. United States of America:
      • 1.1.2. Europe
    • 1.2. Communication Characteristics of ITS Applications
      • 1.2.1. Traffic Incident Management
      • 1.2.2. Incident Notifications
      • 1.2.3. Traffic Management
      • 1.2.4. Electronic Payments
      • 1.2.5. Traveller Information
    • 1.3. System Overview
      • 1.3.1. US Frequency Allocations
      • 1.3.2. European Frequency Allocations
      • 1.3.3. Japan Frequency Allocation
      • 1.3.4. Australian requirements and comparison of ITS with those overseas
    • 1.4. System Requirements for Cooperative ITS
      • 1.4.1. On Board Unit
      • 1.4.2. Road Side Unit
    • 1.5. Alternative Wireless Communication Technologies for ITS
    • 1.6. Likely Rollout of 5.9 ITS
  • 2. INITIAL REQUIREMENTS AND CURRENT AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENT (TASK 3 & TASK 4)
    • 2.1. Fixed Service (FS)
      • 2.1.1. 5.9 ITS Band
      • 2.1.2. 6 GHz band
    • 2.2. Fixed Satellite Services (FSS)
      • 2.2.1. 5.9 Band
      • 2.2.2. Adjacent to 5.9 ITS Band with Overlapping Part
      • 2.2.3. 5925 MHz- 5945 MHz Band without Overlapping with 5.9 ITS Band
    • 2.3. 5830 MHz - 5850 MHz Band
    • 2.4. Summary
  • 3. PREVIOUS STUDIES (TASK 5)
    • 3.1. Summary of US Study NTIA 98-352
    • 3.2. Summary of US Study NTIA 00-373
    • 3.3. Summary of ECC CEPT Report 101
    • 3.4. Summary of ECC CEPT Report 20
    • 3.5. Summary of the 5.9 ITS-FSS Working Group
  • 4. INTERFERENCE AND COMPATIBILITY STUDY (TASK 6)
    • 4.1. Interference and Compatibility Analysis of FSS to 5.9 ITS
      • 4.1.1. Free Space Analysis
      • 4.1.2. Software Simulation of Particular FSS sites
    • 4.2. Interference and Compatibility Analysis of 5.9 ITS to FSS
    • 4.3. Interference and Compatibility Analysis of FS to 5.9 ITS
      • 4.3.1. Interference of Channel 7 Point-to-point Link to 5.9 ITS
    • 4.4. Interference and Compatibility Analysis of 5.9 ITS to FS
      • 4.4.1. Interference of 5.9 ITS to Channel 7 Point-to-point Link
    • 4.5. Interference and Compatibility Study Summary
  • 5. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS ON PROTECTION CRITERIA (TASK 7)
    • 5.1. Technical Characteristics
      • 5.1.1. Technical Characteristics of 5.9 ITS
      • 5.1.2. Technical Characteristics of FSS
      • 5.1.3. Technical Characteristics of FS
    • 5.2. Methodology
      • 5.2.1. Propagation Model
      • 5.2.2. Link Budget
    • 5.3. Protection Criteria
      • 5.3.1. Impact of FSS on 5.9 ITS
      • 5.3.2. Impact of FS on 5.9 ITS
      • 5.3.3. Impact of 5.9 ITS on FS
    • 5.4. Summary
  • 6. FIELD TESTS
    • 6.1. Interference of FSS to ITS
    • 6.2. Interference of FS to ITS
    • 6.3. Interference of ITS to FS
    • 6.4. Field Tests Summary
  • 7. NOISE FLOOR (TASK 8)
  • 8. ANALYSIS OF LONG TERM FREQUENCY REQUIREMENT FOR ITS AND LOCATION (IN THE BAND) OF THESE REQUIREMENTS (TASK 9)
  • 9. FUTURE HIGHER LAYER RESEARCH
    • 9.1. Application/traffic characteristics
    • 9.2. Medium Access Control (MAC) capacity
    • 9.3. Improving MAC layer performance
    • 9.4. Packet prioritisation and channel allocation
  • 10. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    • 10.1. Conclusions of ITS impact on FSS
    • 10.2. Conclusions of FSS impact on ITS
    • 10.3. Conclusions of compatibility between ITS and FS
    • 10.4. Report Recommendations
      • 10.4.1. ITS and FSS:
      • 10.4.2. ITS and FS:
  • REFERENCES
  • Appendix A Interference Coverage of FSS to 5.9 ITS
  • Appendix B Interference Coverage of FS to 5.9 ITS
  • Appendix C Interference Coverage of 5.9 ITS to FS
  • Appendix D Field Test Results
  • Appendix E WRAP Simulation Settings, Assumptions and Default Values
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