VANET

The geeks use this for Vehicle AdHoc Networks, the wireless protocol that cars use to talk.

Location, location, location:

I now talk to the geeks abut this subject, my proposal to use unique location IDs to identify vehicles in the MAC layer. My point is that there are major scale and bandwidth advantages when vehicles and roadside nodes are identified by location.

Better bandwidth and routing:

My point is summarized in the basic problem being solved, a packet collision retains all senses of the word collision, traffic networks have location as fundamental. Location ID also aids in channel separation and is available to phased array antennas. Locations IDs allow intelligent hand offs between roadside nodes that minimizes link distances. All these together more than double the bit rates and allow continuous communications channels over distances. Make it much easier for sustained, multi hop connected applications.

Simplicity and net security:

I repeat here the anonymity of location IDs, they carry no further association to the car than its current location and class. Vehicles without location knowledge can revert to old style, location independent link layer. So much is gained and nothing lost.

Good Industry effects:

The market effect of a common tracking link layer is that we create the "TCP" architecture for the E Traffic industry, in the sense that multiple levels of industry resources can work around tracking engines, transmitter optimizing technology, safety algorithms, routing optimization, and applications from the single layer definition. Vendors can approach traffic planners with a unified, understandable single layer definition of what the mobile networking nodes can do for revenue generation.

Good Marketing:

When traffic planners, like the Oregon or Utah Departments of Transportation can rely on common industry consensus and simplicity, the their risk and cost of money drops way down. The contracts begin to flow.