Communications Profiles
In order to simplify the development of solutions, ARC-IT organizes standards into groups called profiles. A communications profile defines the protocols necessary to define how information is transferred between physical objects. This includes a complete definition of the Access and TransNet Layers, any necessary Facilities Layer protocols (e.g. W3C HTTP), and any necessary Security (e.g. IETF TLS) and Management standards used by these layers. A data profile defines the necessary ITS information and the high-level rules for exchanging this information with a peer physical object, but does not define how the information is transferred. This includes definitions of data elements, messages, dialogs and message sequencing, and may also include relevant Management and Security standards.
A communications profile is paired with a data profile to create a solution. Communications profiles are re-used to support many solutions, and are listed below.
| Name | Description | Relevant Regions |
|---|---|---|
| 802.11 Wi-Fi probe messaging | pre-association messaging that can also be used for positioning enhancement. | Australia, Canada, European Union, and United States |
| Apache Kafka | lower-layer open source code that supports data distribution of specific types of data. | Canada, and United States |
| Apache Kafka over Wireless | lower-layer open source code that supports data distribution of specific types of data over wireless links. | Canada, and United States |
| Bluetooth | lower-layer standards that support wireless communications over a personal area network of up to roughly 100 meters. | Australia, Canada, European Union, Japan, Korea, and United States |
| Centre-to-Any: Wide Area Wireless Broadcast | lower-layer standards that support one entity broadcasting information to all wireless devices over an area that covers at least a metropolitan area without any expectation of acknowledgement or response; security is provided by the upper-layers. | Australia, Canada, European Union, and United States |
| Centre-to-Any: Wide Area Wireless Broadcast via Radio Profile | lower-layer standards that support one entity broadcasting information via radio to all wireless devices over an area that covers at least a metropolitan area without any expectation of acknowledgement or response. | Australia, Canada, European Union, and United States |
| Centre-to-Centre Profile using DATEX over TCP/IP | lower-layer standards that support partially secure communications between two centers as commonly used in Europe. | European Union |
| Centre-to-Centre Profile using NTCIP | lower-layer standards that support partially secure communications between two centers as commonly used in the US. | Australia, Canada, and United States |
| Centre-to-Centre: European ITS Communications between centres using OCIT | lower-layer ODG proprietary protocol used within the EU for road traffic data exchange between central stations. | European Union |
| Comm Profile Out of Scope | a set of lower layer standards that are outside the scope of this analysis process. | Australia, Canada, European Union, Japan, and United States |
| Dynamic Message Sign and Road Weather Information Sign Communications | lower-layer standards that support communications for DMS and RWIS using SA TS 7519 via IP. | Australia |
| Field-to-Vehicle: Short Range Wireless Downlink(JP) | F-V DSRC communication standars used in Japan. | Japan |
| I-F: AU TRAFF Comms | lower-layer standards that support communication to a traffic controller. | Australia |
| I-F: Australian Infrastructure to Field Communication Protocol | lower-layer placeholder for an Australian solution identified for development. This may end up being I-F: SNMPv3, but it is currently undefined and just used as a placeholder. | Australia |
| Infrastructure to Field: UTMC SNMPv2 | lower-layer standards that support secure center-to-field and field-to-field communications using simple network management protocol (SNMPv2). While SNMPv2 offers some security capabilities, implementations are strongly encouraged to use SNMPv3 to ensure adequate security. | European Union |
| Infrastructure-to-Field: Data Distribution Service | lower-layer standards that support secure data sharing and command operations between remote devices. | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Field: Data Distribution Service over Wireless | lower-layer standards that support secure data sharing and command operations between remote devices over wireless links. | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Field: European ITS Communications to field using OCIT | lower-layer ODG proprietary, published protocol used within the EU for road traffic data exchange between central stations and field devices. | European Union |
| Infrastructure-to-Field: Secure SNMP Profile | lower-layer standards that support secure center-to-field and field-to-field communications using simple network management protocol (SNMPv3); implementations are strongly encouraged to use the TLS for SNMP security option for this solution to ensure adequate security. | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Field: SNMPv1 (with an option to use STMP) Profile | lower-layer standards that define how SNMPv1, which does not provide any security, is used within some deployments within the ITS industry. This solution is no longer recommended due to known security vulnerabilities. | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Field: SNMPv1 (with an option to use STMP) Profile (partially secure) | lower-layer standards that define one way to retrofit basic security into SNMPv1 implementations (mainly in the US); however, this only secures the communications link and does not provide end-application security and is not recommended for new deployments. | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Infrastructure: Internet proflle in the US | lower-layer standards that support secure communications between ITS equipment using X.509 or IEEE 1609.2 security certificates. | Australia, Canada, European Union, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Infrastructure: Guaranteed Internet proflle in the US | lower-layer standards that support secure communications with guaranteed delivery between ITS equipment using X.509 or IEEE 1609.2 security certificates. | Australia, Canada, European Union, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Infrastructure: UDP over IP | lower-layer standards that support the Network Time Protocol that allows NTP servers to provide time synchronization services to other NTP servers and clients. | Australia, Canada, European Union, Japan, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Mobile: A wireless-only variant of the SNMPv3 stack | lower-layer standards that support secure infrastructure-to-mobile communications using simple network management protocol (SNMPv3). | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Mobile: Wireless (e.g., hot spot) Internet in the US | lower-layer standards that support secure communications between two entities, either or both of which may be mobile devices, but they must be stationary or only moving within wireless range of a single wireless access point (e.g., a parked car). Security is based on X.509 or IEEE 1609.2 certificates. A non-mobile (if any) endpoint may connect to the service provider using any Internet connection method. | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Mobile: Wireless (e.g., hot spot) Internet options in the US | lower-layer standards that support secure communications with guaranteed delivery between two entities, either or both of which may be mobile devices, but they must be stationary or only moving within wireless range of a single wireless access point (e.g., a parked car). Security is based on X.509 or IEEE 1609.2 certificates. A non-mobile (if any) endpoint may connect to the service provider using any Internet connection method. | Canada, and United States |
| Infrastructure-to-Mobile: Wireless (e.g., hot spot) Internet using X.509 | lower-layer standards that support secure communications with guaranteed delivery between two entities, either or both of which may be mobile devices, but they must be stationary or only moving within wireless range of a single wireless access point (e.g., a parked car). Security is based on X.509 certificates. A non-mobile (if any) endpoint may connect to the service provider using any Internet connection method. | Australia, and European Union |
| Infrastructure-to-Mobile: Wireless (e.g., hot spot) Internet using X.509 | lower-layer standards that support secure communications between two entities, either or both of which may be mobile devices, but they must be stationary or only moving within wireless range of a single wireless access point (e.g., a parked car). Security is based on X.509 certificates. A non-mobile (if any) endpoint may connect to the service provider using any Internet connection method. | Australia, and European Union |
| OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol | lower-layer standards that support data distribution of specific types of data. | Canada, European Union, and United States |
| OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol over Wireless | lower-layer standards that support data distribution of specific types of data over wireless links. | Canada, European Union, and United States |
| OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport | lower-layer standards that support data distribution of specific types of data. | Australia, Canada, and United States |
| OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport over Wireless | lower-layer standards that support data distribution of specific types of data over wireless links. | Australia, Canada, and United States |
| Positioning Receiver-to-Any | lower-layer standards that support communications between connected ITS equipment and geolocation equipment such as a GPS receiver. | Australia, Canada, European Union, and United States |
| Proprietary Communications | lower-layer technologies that do not necessarily follow standards. | Australia, Canada, European Union, Japan, and United States |
| Roadside to vehicle and vehicle to vehicle profile for regulated applications based on CEN-DSRC at 5.8 GHz | lower-layer standards that are compliant with ISO 21217 with the complication that remote tachographs are based on the CEN-DSRC at 5.8 GHz. | European Union |
| Roadside to vehicle profile for Electronic Tolling applications based on CEN-DSRC at 5.8 | lower-layer standards that support electronic tolling applications using the CEN-DSRC at 5.8 GHz. | Australia, and European Union |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Basic Transport Protocol over the G5 Profile | lower-layer standards that support broadcast, near constant, low latency vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications using the ETSI GeoNetworking Bundle over the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Australia, and European Union |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Dedicated Short Range Communications Profile using C-V2X and TCP | lower-layer standards that support connection-oriented vehicle-to-any communications using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over C-V2X in the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Dedicated Short Range Communications Profile using C-V2X and UDP | lower-layer standards that support connectionless vehicle-to-any communications using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over C-V2X in the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Dedicated Short Range Communications Profile using C-V2X and WSMP | lower-layer standards that support connectionless, near constant, ultra-low latency vehicle-to-any communications using the WAVE Short Messaging Protocol (WSMP) over 3GPP C-V2X in the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Dedicated Short Range Communications Profile using SNMP | lower-layer standards that support connectionless, ultra-low latency vehicle-to-any communications within ~300m using the SNMPv3 over UDP/IP over the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Dedicated Short Range Communications Profile using WAVE and TCP | lower-layer standards that support connection-oriented vehicle-to-any communications within ~300m using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over IEEE WAVE in the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Dedicated Short Range Communications Profile using WAVE and UDP | lower-layer standards that support connectionless vehicle-to-any communications within ~300m using the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over IEEE WAVE in the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Dedicated Short Range Communications Profile using WAVE and WSMP | lower-layer standards that support connectionless, near constant, ultra-low latency vehicle-to-any communications within ~300m using the WAVE Short Messaging Protocol (WSMP) over IEEE WAVE in the 5.9GHz spectrum. The broadcast mode is interoperable with M5 FNTP. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: DSRC using TCP over IPv6 over the G5 | lower-layer standards that support broadcast, near constant, low latency vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications using the ETSI GeoNetworking Bundle with TCP/IPv6 over the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Australia, and European Union |
| Vehicle-to-Any: DSRC using UDP over IPv6 over the G5 | lower-layer standards that support broadcast, near constant, low latency vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications using the ETSI GeoNetworking Bundle with UDP/IPv6 over the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Australia, and European Union |
| Vehicle-to-Any: IPv6 communications using Basic Transport Protocol over the G5 Profile | lower-layer standards that support multi-hop, broadcast, near constant, low latency vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications using the ETSI GeoNetworking Bundle over the 5.9GHz spectrum. | Australia, and European Union |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Local Broadcast Wireless | lower-layer standards that support local-area broadcast wireless solutions, such as DSRC technologies, LTE/5G, etc. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Local Broadcast Wireless | lower-layer standards that support local-area broadcast wireless solutions, such as DSRC technologies, 5G LTE, etc. | Australia, and European Union |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Local Unicast Wireless (NA) | lower-layer standards that support local-area unicast wireless solutions applicable to the European Union, such as G5, LTE, Wi-Fi, etc. | Australia, and European Union |
| Vehicle-to-Any: Local Unicast Wireless (NA) | lower-layer standards that support local-area unicast wireless solutions applicable to North America, such as WAVE DSRC, LTE-V2X, LTE, Wi-Fi, etc. | Canada, and United States |
| Vehicle-to-Everything: Short Range Wireless (JP) | 700MHz V-X short range wireless communication standards used in Japan. | Japan |
| Vehicle-to-Field: Short Range Wireless (JP) | V-F DSRC communication standars used in Japan. | Japan |
| Vehicle-to-Infrastructure: Wireless Electric Charging | lower-layer standards that support communications with charging stations. | Australia, Canada, European Union, and United States |