ETSI, in partnership with the 5GAA, is organising the second Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) Plugtests event. It will be held remotely, from 20 to 31 July. ETSI recently setup a remote lab for all participants, leveraging the ETSI Hub for Interoperability and Validation (HIVE) to interconnect participants’ labs and allow for multi-party interoperability testing.
The Hive allows the secure interconnection of remote sites to ETSI and offers seamless access among connected sites and local infrastructure at ETSI. The Hub also supports remote participation to Plugtests on many different technologies and pre‐testing phases on complex Plugtests events.
C-V2X is a service using mobile communication technology for direct communication as well as network communication between vehicles, from vehicle to pedestrian and from vehicle to infrastructure. This second C-V2X Plugtests event will focus on testing ITS security features and will enable CV2X device vendors and public key infrastructure (PKI) vendors to run interoperability test sessions to assess the level of interoperability of their implementation and validate the understanding of the standards.
This edition will also focus on testing direct communication between devices in order to support industry in the Cooperative ITS (C-ITS) deployment in Europe and the EU Security Policy & Governance Framework for Deployment and Operation of European Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS).
In January, ETSI released a European standard ETSI EN 303 613 defining the use of C-V2X as an access layer technology for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) devices. ETSI standards that define other ITS protocols above the access layer have also been updated to support utilisation of C-V2X as the underlying access layer. They are all included in ETSI TR 101 607, enabling the development of interoperable C-V2X ITS implementations and devices from multiple vendors.
