Controller in bidirectional adhoc network radio communication

• US 9,237,599 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2012
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG), Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG), Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Sthlin, Ulrich, Eckert, Alfred, Diebold, Jrgen, Lke, Stefan, Windl, Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang B
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOWDHURY, HARUN UR R
• Application Number:
  US13/529,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20130170399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,300 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/312, 370/313, 370/255, 340/901, 340/902, 340/903, 340904-905
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

The invention describes a controller for data processing in bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication with a computation unit for data processing and ports for data input and data output. The computation unit is set up to process the data according to the ITS standard, wherein the data processing is limited to processing steps of the ITS Facility layer, which performs content-oriented evaluation and/or conditioning of the data which are received or need to be sent by means of the bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication, and a first wideband communication port is provided at least for receiving the data from an ITS communication unit for the purpose of bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication.

Claims

1. A controller located in a vehicle for data processing in bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication, including:

a computation unit for data processing, the computation unit being configured to process the data according to an ITS standard, and data processing of the computation unit performs processing steps of an ITS Facility layer which are limited to content-oriented evaluation and/or conditioning of the data which are received or transmitted by the bidirectional adhoc-network radio communication, the computation unit is not set up to process data according to an ITS access technologies layer, an ITS network layer or an ITS transport layer; and

a first wideband communication port is provided for the purpose of bidirectional communication with an ITS communication unit, the bidirectional communication including receiving the data from the ITS communication unit located in the vehicle,

wherein the received data was processed according to at least one of the ITS access technologies layer, the ITS network layer and the ITS transport layer by the ITS communication unit.

2. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein a second communication port is provided for sending data to the ITS communication unit.

3. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein a satellite data port is provided for receiving position data.

4. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one port is provided for a vehicle sensor and/or ambient sensor.

5. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computation unit of the controller is set up to combine satellite position data and data from a vehicle sensor and/or ambient sensor.

6. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller with the computation unit is set up on the basis of a high safety level.

7. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein a port to a multimedia control unit is provided.

8. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computation unit of the controller is set up to merge data received from a multimedia control unit, from a vehicle sensor and/or ambient sensor and/or by a bidirectional adhoc network and to produce preprocessed data therefrom according to the ITS standard.

9. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computation unit is set up to perform preprocessing on the communication data.