BACKGROUND

The so-called “connected car concept” includes the idea that vehicles may be enabled to communicate wirelessly with one another. The 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) Long Term Evolution (LTE) communications standard has been proposed as the communication standard for implementing the connected car concept (also referred to as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications). V2V communications include one vehicle establishing a direct connection with one or multiple other vehicles.

Examples of such connections may include an LTE sidelink connection (also referred as direct connection, a proximity services (ProSe) connection, a device-to-device (D2D) connection, etc.). Once connected, vehicles may communicate a variety of information to each other, such as location information, velocity information, acceleration information, directional information, performance information, and more. Such information may be used to provide a variety of functionalities, such as preventing car accidents, determining driving conditions (e.g., traffic jams, icy roads, car accidents, etc.), determining optimal routes for driving from one location to another, etc.

