VEHICLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE
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Abstract
A vehicle communication device for using a plurality of applications in an inter-vehicle communication, and performing a control to avoid congestion of its own vehicle and other vehicles. The vehicle communication device includes a plurality of application units performing the inter-vehicle communication, a lower protocol unit transmitting and receiving data between vehicles, and a middleware unit intervening between the application units and the lower protocol unit. The middleware unit includes a transfer service processing unit, a communication control service unit, and a transmission/reception control processing unit. The communication control service unit controls a congestion avoiding process of its own vehicle and other vehicles based on application priority received for each of the application units, priority for each vehicle, and channel usage rate obtained from the lower protocol unit.
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7. A vehicle communication device, comprising:
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a plurality of application units for performing inter-vehicle communication in accordance with a predetermined purpose; a lower protocol unit for transmitting and receiving data between vehicles; and a middleware unit intervening between said application units and said lower protocol unit, said middleware unit including; a transfer service processing unit for delivering and receiving data to/from said application units and identifying a delivery destination of data received by said middleware unit; a communication control service unit for performing a process to avoid congestion in said inter-vehicle communication and managing a port number for identifying said application units; and a transmission/reception control processing unit for performing a transmitting and receiving control of said data, wherein said communication control service unit controls a congestion avoiding process of its own vehicle and other vehicles based on application priority received for each of said application units, vehicle priority for each vehicle, and channel usage rate obtained from said lower protocol unit. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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