Title: Performance analyses of minimising emergency message collisions and maximising network throughput in IEEE 802.11p VANET network

Authors: Ben-Jye Chang; Ying-Hsin Liang; Jiun-Ting Lai

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, 640, Taiwan ' Department of Multimedia Animation and Application, Nan Kai University of Technology, Nantou, 542, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, 640, Taiwan

Abstract: IEEE 802.11p is proposed as the VANET wireless media access control (MAC) interface for the transmissions of emergency messages in V2V and V2I Communications. However, in a high mobility vehicular adhoc network (VANET), quality of service (QoS) of both the emergency message (EM) and handoff transmissions suffer from high collision probability of the contention-based media access mechanism and high interference exhibiting near the cell-edge that encodes a low coding rate of the adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme. Thus, this paper proposes an efficient MAC for IEEE 802.11p to solve above critical issues, in which the approach consists of three main mechanisms to dynamically determine contention window (CW) based on the sigmoid function. Numerical results demonstrate that the analysis results are close to the simulation results, and thus justify the correctness of the mathematical analytical model. In addition, the proposed approach outperforms the compared approaches (including the IEEE 802.11p std.) in EM transmission delay, collision probability, throughput and MAC frame dropping probability.

Keywords: IEEE 802.11p; Markov chain models; contention window; sigmoid function; VANETs; vehicular ad hoc networks; performance evaluation; emergency message collisions; network throughput; emergency messages; wireless MAC; media access control; quality of service; QoS; handoff transmissions; simulation; mathematical modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2015.069057

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2015 Vol.18 No.4, pp.205 - 221

Received: 22 Apr 2013
Accepted: 01 Oct 2013
Published online: 26 Apr 2015 *

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