Impact of Awareness Control on V2V-Based Overtaking Application in Autonomous Driving

In autonomous driving, IEEE 802.11p-based vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is considered for overcoming the intrinsic limitations of sensors and supporting safety applications. In this letter, we evaluate the effectiveness of relevant awareness control approaches, such as ETSI DMG, IVTRC, and POSACC, to support the V2V-based overtaking application in autonomous driving. For this, we assess the incident detection capability of the overtaking application when it is running with messages gathered from these approaches, considering packet losses due to channel fading. Simulations show that POSACC is more effective than the remaining approaches for detecting unsafe overtaking maneuvers in different operating conditions.