Work-in-Progress Abstract: A Reliable Wireless Smart Vehicle Highway On-Ramp Merging Protocol with Constant Time Headway Safety Guarantee

In this work, we aim to propose a reliable automatic highway on-ramp smart vehicle merging protocol that tolerates arbitrary wireless packet losses, and guarantees the widely adopted safety rule of Constant Time Headway (CTH) [1] . This is different from the existing literature, which assumes reliable communications infrastructure (e.g. [2] ) or focuses on safety rules other than the CTH (e.g. [3] ).