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A Survey of Inter-Vehicle Communication Jun Luo Jean-Pierre Hubaux School of Computer and Communication Sciences EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Technical Report IC/2004/24 Abstract As a component of the intelligent transportation system ITS and one of the concrete applications of mobile ad hoc networks, inter-vehicle communication IVC has attracted research attention from both the academia and industry of, notably, US, EU, and Japan. The most important feature of IVC is its ability to extend the horizon of drivers and on-board devices e.g., radar or sensors and, thus, to improve road tra?c safety and e?ciency. This paper surveys IVC with respect to key enabling technologies ranging from physical radio frequency to group communication primitives and security issues. The mobility models used to evaluate the feasibility of these technologies are also brie?y described. We focus on the discussion of various MAC protocols that seem to be indis- pensable components in the network protocol stack of IVC. By analyzing the application requirements and the protocols built upon the MAC layer to meet these requirements, we also advocate our perspective that ad hoc routing protocols and group communication primitives migrated from wired networks might not be an e?cient way to support the envisioned applications, and that new coordination algorithms directly based on MAC could be designed for this purpose. 1 Introduction Inter-vehicle communication IVC , on one hand, is an important component of the intelligent transportation system ITS architecture. It enables a driver or its vehicle to communicate with other drivers or their vehicles that locate out of the range of line of sight LOS or even out of the radio range if a multihop network is built among several vehicles . As a result, information gathered through IVC can help improve