Inter-Vehicle Communications (IVC) technology for Group Cooperative Driving has been studied by Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile Traffic and Driving (JSK) since the date of 1980 in Japan. The study of the IVC technology has been focussed on the communication protocol. This paper proposes DOLPHIN (Dedicated Omni-purpose inter-vehicle communication Linkage Protocol for HIghway automatioN) and presents its performance evaluation results.

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A spectrum sharing method is proposed for the systems which share the same frequency band or adjacent bands with different priorities. The proposed method adaptively controls transmission power according to information offered by high-priority system receivers. We give theoretical capacities achieved by low-priority systems when the proposed method and a conventional method (constant transmit power) are applied. Numerical results confirm that the proposed method attains 1.5-2 times larger capacity than the conventional method.

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In order to obtain high burn-up MOX fuel irradiation performance data, SBR and MIMAS MOX fuel rods with Pufissile enrichment of about 6 wt% have been irradiated in the HBWR. In-pile performance data of MOX have been obtained, and the peak burn-up of MOX pellet have reached to 66 GWd/tM as of October 2004. MOX fuel temperature is confirmed to have no significant difference compared to UO 2 , if taking into account adequately for thermal conductivity degradation due to PuO 2 addition and burn-up development, and measured fuel temperature agrees well with HB-FINE code calculation up to high burn-up region. Fission gas release of MOX is possibly larger than UO 2 based on temperature and pressure assessment. No significant difference is confirmed between SBR and MIMAS MOX on FGR behaviour. MOX fuel swelling rate agrees well with solid swelling rate. Cladding elongation data shows onset of PCMI in high power region. Ramp test data from other experiment programs with various types of MOX fabrication route confirms superior PCI resistance of MOX compared to UO 2 , due to enhanced creep rate of MOX. The irradiation is expected to continue until achieving of 70 GWd/tM (MOX pellet peak).