Short Term Scientific Mission Final Report Jonathan Petit 1 Introduction This Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) was realized from March 18th to April 30th 2011 at the Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland, under the supervision of Prof. Yevgeni Koucheryavy. This mission was supported by COST IC0906 WiNeMo “Wireless Networking for Moving Objects (2010-2014)” project. In this final report, we first remind the purpose of the STSM. Then, section 3 details the work carried out during this mission and the results obtained. Section 4 introduces the short-term work-in-progress and section 5 concludes this report. 2 Purpose of the STSM In 2007, road accidents have cost 110 deaths, 4600 injuries and e438 millions daily in the European Union. Therefore, industry consortia, governments, and automotive companies, have made the reduction of vehicular fatalities a top priority. To raise this challenge, a main idea is to make vehicles and roads smarter thanks to wireless communications. In- deed, wireless communications will increase the line-of-sight of the driver and make vehicles aware of their environment. Modern vehicles now include a set of processors connected to a central computing platform that provides many wired and wireless interfaces. Smart vehi- cles are those vehicles that are equipped with On-Board Unit (OBU), which has recording, processing, positioning, and location capabilities and that supports wireless security proto- cols. Roads can be made smart with Road-Side Units (RSU), installed along a road, that can inform passing vehicles about the road traffic conditions. A wireless vehicular network is composed by OBU and RSU, connected wirelessly. The VSC Project details the 75 ap- plications that could be deployed on vehicular networks. Applications are divided in three categories: safety-related, traffic optimization and infotainment. Automotive safety-related applications aim to assist drivers in avoiding vehicular accidents, by providing advisories and early warnings to drivers, using broadcast vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Vehicles typically communicate as per the Dedicated Short Range Communication stan- dard (DSRC), and broadcast messages in response to certain notified events (emergency message) or periodically (beacon message). Safety-related applications such as cooperative collision avoidance, local danger warning 1