Methods and devices for operating vehicles using decentralized communication

A vehicle comprising:

• a communication interface for providing wireless decentralized communication in a wireless communication environment,
• wherein the vehicle is configured to receive a position signal comprising information associated with vehicle position of another vehicle in a spatial area and to adapt a route of the vehicle based on a position of the another vehicle,
• wherein the position signal is a first position signal, and
• wherein the vehicle is configured to transmit a second position signal comprising information associated, by a used resource for transmitting the second position signal, with a vehicle position of the vehicle in the spatial area to inform the wireless communication environment on the vehicle position;
• and
• a controller configured to acquire partial area information indicating a division of the spatial area into a first partial area and into a second partial area and to acquire resource information on a first resource subset of a total amount of available wireless resources of the wireless communication environment allocated to the first partial area and resource information on a second resource subset of the total amount of available wireless resources of the wireless communication environment allocated to the second partial area,
• wherein the controller is configured to control the communication interface in dependence on a position of the vehicle in the spatial area to determine a position of a vehicle transmitting the position signal at a first position in the first partial area based on a used resource of the first resource subset and to receive, associated with a second position in the second partial area, the position signal by using a resource of the second resource subset, and
• wherein the vehicle is configured to receive the position signal or a further position signal of a same content also by using a further resource subset that is allocated to the vehicle transmitting the position signal for an adjacent partial area.

A wireless communication network comprising a plurality of vehicles wherein a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles comprising:

• a communication interface for providing wireless decentralized communication in a wireless communication environment;
• wherein the vehicle is configured to emit a position signal comprising information associated with a vehicle position of the vehicle in a spatial area using the wireless decentralized communication to inform the wireless communication environment on the vehicle position, and
• wherein the vehicle is configured to receive a position signal comprising information associated with vehicle position of another vehicle in a spatial area and to adapt a route of the vehicle based on a position of the another vehicle;
• and
• a network controller configured to divide the spatial area into a plurality of partial areas and to allocate each partial area a resource subset of a total amount of wireless resources available in the wireless communication network such that adjacent partial areas differ in at least one wireless resource,
• wherein the wireless communication network is configured to transmit, using at least one configuration signal to the plurality of vehicles, an instruction to the plurality of vehicles to use, at a position of a respective vehicle in a partial area, resources of the resource subset allocated to the partial area for decentralized communication, and
• wherein the network controller is configured to dynamically adapt the resource subset allocated to the partial area to a communication density of the partial area.