Communication Infrastructure and Data Requirements for Autonomous Transportation

Autonomous driving technology has been regarded as a promising solution to reduce road accidents and traffic congestion, as well as to optimize the usage of fuel and lane. However, one of the main challenges in autonomous driving is a limited sensing from single vehicle that causes warning and dead-lock situation. The network management in Vehicular network is challenging and demands mobility, location awareness, high reliability and low latency of data traffic which are not feasible or efficiently implemented with today’s network architecture. In this paper, we propose the novel communication architecture for vehicular network with Fifth generation Mobile Networks (5G) and SDN technologies to gain more flexibility and support multiple core networks for vehicular networks and to tackle the potential challenges raised by the autonomous driving vehicles.