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Scope and Contributions. This paper addresses consensus mechanisms using vehicle- to-vehicle (V2V) communication over a vehicular ad-hoc net- work (VANET) for platoon management decisions. We do nei- v5 v4 v3 v2 v1 v5 v4 v3 v2 v1 v5 v4 v3 v2 v1 Figure 2: Considered communication topologies of neighboring ve- hicles. An arrow indicates that a vehicle can directly send messages using a wireless V2V VANET. ther address the motion control of vehicles within the platoon nor the performance of the VANET itself. We consider three different V2V communication topologies and assume a syn- chronized message delivery with timeouts. We propose a distributed platoon management scheme that distributes the validation of platoon properties across all pla- toon members and thus removes the leader as a single-point of failure. In particular, we • analyze under which conditions the consensus problem can be solved for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), such as platoons (Section III). • propose CUBA, a consensus scheme specifically tailored to platoons that communicates over VANET. (Section IV). • discuss related approaches (Section V) and compare our CUBA protocol illustrating its feasibility (Section VI).