V2V Communication Analysis by a Probabilistic Approach

More and more research fields, in particular in the road safety area, need to establish a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication step in order to deploy applications (for instance warning messages in case of emergency situations and string and platoon stability). Generally, these applications are experimented with only few vehicles with a local ad hoc or centralized network. The aim of this paper is to determine the behavior of a such network in a traffic flow. We want to know which conditions are necessary and which quality of service (QoS) we can expect. We base our approach on probabilistic formal expression. This approach can be complementary to the solutions brought by network simulators as ns2.