ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes automotive applications, and outlines the main standards used in the automotive industry, in particular, the networks and their protocols. It analyzes some insights into how the standard solutions can cope with application characteristics. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has classified the automotive applications into Classes A, B, and C with increasing order of criticality on real-time and dependability constraints. Local interconnect network is a low-cost serial bus network used for distributed body control electronic systems in vehicles. Controller area network (CAN) is without any doubt the most used in-vehicle network. There are even more advanced protocols supporting high-speed communication, such as FlexRay and Media-oriented system transport (MOST). The Ethernet is a popular communication network technology used mainly in local area networks (LANs). The aim of implementation of the test bed is to explore an automotive network design that integrates Ethernet, ZigBee, and Wi-Fi.
