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A DENM contains information related to an event that has potential impact on road safety or traffic condition. An event
is characterized by an event type, an event position, a detection time and a time duration. These attributes may change
over space and over time.
In some situations, the originating ITS-S transmits a DENM of an event caused by the ITS-S itself, such as electronic
brake light event. The originating ITS-S manages the transmission and the termination of the DENM for this event.
However, in some other situations, DENMs related to the same event may be transmitted by more than one originating
ITS-Ss. In addition, in case the originating ITS-S is mobile (e.g. vehicle ITS-S or personal ITS-S), an event may persist
even after the originating ITS-S has moved to a position far from the event position. For example, multiple vehicle
ITS-Ss may detect black ice on the road surface and transmit DENMs. These DENMs are relayed by other ITS-Ss even
after the detecting vehicle ITS-Ss have left the black ice location. Therefore, the DENM transmission is independent
from the originating ITS-S in this example. The DENM protocol is designed to manage these situations.
The following DENM types are defined:
• New DENM: A DENM generated by the DEN basic service when an event is detected by an originating ITS-S
for the first time. Each new DENM is assigned with a new identifier, denoted as actionID. A new DENM
provides event attributes, such as event position, event type, event detection time, and other attributes as
defined in clause 7.
• Update DENM: A DENM generated by the DEN basic service that includes update information of an event.
An update DENM is transmitted by the same originating ITS-S, which had generated the new DENM for the
same event.
• Cancellation DENM: A DENM that informs the termination of an event. A cancellation DENM is transmitted
by the same originating ITS-S which has generated the new DENM for the same event.
• Negation DENM: A DENM that informs the termination of an event for which the new DENM has been
received by the originating ITS-S from another ITS-S. A negation DENM may be used to announce the
termination of an event if the originating ITS-S has the capacity to detect the termination of an event which
has been previously announced by other ITS-Ss. As example, the originating ITS-S of a new DENM indicating
black ice has left the event position, some time later, another ITS-S receiving this new DENM reaches the
indicated black ice position and detects that the back ice has disappeared. The latter ITS-S may in this case
generate a negation DENM for this event.
NOTE 3: Whether a negation DENM is transmitted may depend on the application requirements and the
deployment requirement. Therefore, definition of conditions under which the generation and transmission
of negation DENM is allowed is out of scope of the present document.
The DEN basic service of the originating ITS-S shall be able to construct above DENMs types. ITS-S application of the
originating ITS-S sends an application request to the DEN basic service in order to trigger the generation of DENMs.
The type of the DENM to be generated depends on the type of the application request.
Due to the different detection capabilities of ITS-Ss, the quality of the provided information in a DENM may vary.
However, predefined conditions are to be satisfied by an ITS-S in order to initiate and terminate the transmission of
DENMs for a specific event. These conditions are specified as ITS application requirements in ETSI TS 101 539-1 [i.4],
ETSI TS 101 539-2 [i.5] and ETSI TS 101 539-3 [i.6].
5 DEN basic service functional description
5.1 Introduction
The DEN basic service features several functionalities which are specified hereafter. The present clause is organized as
following:
• Clause 5.2 introduces the DEN basic service.
• Clause 5.3 defines functionalities of the DEN basic service.
• Clause 5.4 defines interfaces of the DEN basic service.