An IEEE 802.11p-Based Multichannel MAC Scheme With Channel Coordination for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Wang, Qing ; Leng, Supeng ; Fu, Huirong ; Zhang, Yan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Commun. and Inf. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. and Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

Volume

13

Issue

2

fYear

2012

fDate

6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

449

Lastpage

458

Abstract

In recent years, governments, standardization bodies, automobile manufacturers, and academia are working together to develop vehicular ad hoc network (VANET)-based communication technologies. VANETs apply multiple channels, i.e., control channel (CCH) and service channels (SCHs), to provide open public road safety services and the improve comfort and efficiency of driving. Based on the latest standard draft IEEE 802.11p and IEEE 1609.4, this paper proposes a variable CCH interval (VCI) multichannel medium access control (MAC) scheme, which can dynamically adjust the length ratio between CCH and SCHs. The scheme also introduces a multichannel coordination mechanism to provide contention-free access of SCHs. Markov modeling is conducted to optimize the intervals based on the traffic condition. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme is able to help IEEE 1609.4 MAC significantly enhance the saturated throughput of SCHs and reduce the transmission delay of service packets while maintaining the prioritized transmission of critical safety information on CCH.

Keywords

Markov processes; access protocols; automobiles; delays; telecommunication traffic; vehicular ad hoc networks; wireless channels; IEEE 1609.4 standard; IEEE 802.11p-based multichannel MAC scheme; Markov modeling; SCH; VANET; VCI MAC scheme; automobile manufacturer; contention-free access; control channel; critical safety information transmission; multichannel coordination mechanism; open public road safety service; service channel; service packet transmission delay reduction; standardization body; theoretical analysis; variable CCH interval multichannel medium access control scheme; vehicular ad hoc network; Ad hoc networks; Bandwidth; Data communication; Markov processes; Media Access Protocol; Safety; Throughput; Channel coordination; IEEE 1609.4; medium access control (MAC); multichannel; vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1524-9050

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TITS.2011.2171951

Filename

6071009