Overhauling ns-2 PHY/MAC simulations for IEEE 802.11p/WAVE vehicular networks

Author

Campolo, Claudia ; Cozzetti, Hector Agustin ; Molinaro, Antonella ; Scopigno, Riccardo M.

Author_Institution

DIMET-Dipt. di Inf., Mat., Elettron. e Trasporti, Univ. Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

7167

Lastpage

7171

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11p/WAVE family of standards has been designed to provide multi-channel communications for vehicular use. Despite the increasing interest on vehicular networking, further efforts are still required to improve realism of simulations, in order to account for the latest standards and for physical-related phenomena. In this paper, we aim at overhauling the physical and MAC layers of ns-2 to include the last recommendations on frequency allocation, the effects of channel impairments (fading, obstructions, in-channel and adjacent channel interference), an enhanced receiver design, and the WAVE multi-channel related effects.

Keywords

access protocols; vehicular ad hoc networks; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11p/WAVE vehicular networks; channel impairments; frequency allocation; multichannel communications; ns-2 PHY/MAC simulations; vehicular use; Computational modeling; Delay; Interference; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Switches; Vehicles; 802.11p; ACI; FEC; VANET; WAVE; obstruction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6364771

Filename

6364771