Wireless Network Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles Communications: Khobar City as a Case Study

As moving to the EVs is essential due to the environmental cues, we need to solve the problems and undertake the challenges of the EVs to expedite this move. One of these challenges is the long recharging time compared to the traditional refueling process and the consequence of this issue is overcrowding in charging stations. To solve this problem, a charging management system is needed. However, an effective charging management system requires efficient communication networks that facilitate the exchange of information between the EVs, charging stations and the management server. In this work, we study the feasibility of exchanging EV’s data using V2V and V2I communications infrastructure considering Al Khobar city in Saudi Arabia as a case study. SUMO GUI and OMNET++ simulators have been used to set up the environment. The simulation results show that the minimum data throughput requirements are 0.83,1.11, and 59.19 Bytes for V2V, V2I, and I2I respectively. This paper has contributed to finding the minimum requirement of the data throughputs of the communication links in vehicular communication.