HIPERLAN/2 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication

The objective of the IST project MIND is to facilitate IP-based broadband services for mobile users in various operating environments. Activities within MIND concentrate on the development, optimisation and harmonisation of the appropriate layers involved. The physical (PHY) layer was chosen to base on the High Performance Radio Local Area Network type 2 standard (HiperLAN2). The work presented here demonstrates the applicability of HiperLAN2 to scenarios with increased mobility. Initially, HiperLAN2 was designed for rather static environments providing hot spot data rates of up to 54Mbps. Mitigation techniques to overcome the drawbacks of a fast fading environment are thus studied within IST-MIND. The extracted transceiver structures allow the deployment of HiperLAN2 in almost any environments currently envisaged. Particularly, the system deployment of HiperLAN2 to a Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication scenario is studied in this paper and preliminary system level performance results presented.