DLR V2X Software Framework: A CCU-agnostic solution for transceiving V2X messages

Abstract

The employment of Intelligent Transportation Systems stations for sending and receiving V2X messages in research projects can become an inconvenient task, even more if hardware of different manufacturers is used. The APIs that manufacturers offer for their hardware are often difficult to handle on the user side. Furthermore, the creation and definition of experimental V2X message types or the extension of existing messages can be time-consuming, especially if a team of developers use different programming languages or frameworks. This paper presents the DLR V2X Software Framework (V2X-SF) that aims at solving the named problems by providing an easy-to-use API for V2X end users.