Title
From PLATO to Platoons
Abstract
Grouping vehicles into platoons promises to improve road capacity, driver safety, and fuel consumption. However, when platoons have to allow for cross traffic maneuvers, the ability to control single large platoons is not sufficient, and chaining smaller platoons becomes necessary. To this aim we define PLATO, an edge-assisted multi-platoon control architecture and, by delving into the dichotomy of unity and plurality of platooning, we analyze costs and benefits of multi-platooning. We investigate on the feasibility and formulate the utility of multi-platoons by analyzing the underlying edge computing and broadband cellular connectivity requirements. Using a detailed simulator, we show that, in realistic environments, multi-platoons can be effectively controlled with PLATO, as long as the latency between individual platoon managers and the multi-platoon manager is kept below a few tens of milliseconds. Surprisingly, the latency between vehicles and managers is one order of magnitude less critical.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/MedComNet52149.2021.9501242
2021 19th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Multi-platooning,MEC,Simulation
Conference
978-1-6654-1177-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Quadri100.34
Vincenzo Mancuso2124976.65
Valerio Cislaghi300.34
Marco Ajmone Marsan400.34
Gian Paolo Rossi539078.09