Reconsider Broadcast Packet Reception Rates in One-Dimensional MANETs

In this paper, a new analytic model is built to derive a closed-form expression of broadcast packet reception rates (PRRs) in IEEE 802.11 based one-dimensional (1-D) mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), which is the extension of 1-D MANET analytical model in. Comparing with the existing models, the proposed model accounts for the impact of more factors and network parameters on PRRs such as non-saturated packet arrival in each mobile node, varied transmission, carrier sensing, and interference ranges, distances of receivers to the sender, and collisions caused by concurrent transmissions. As an example, the proposed model is applied to evaluate a dedicated short range communication (DSRC) safety-related service on a highway. Based on the simulation results, some important observations to the design and analysis of such wireless communication networks are provided.