A distributed reliable multi-channel MAC protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks

Author

Lu, Ning ; Wang, Xinhong ; Wang, Ping ; Lai, Peiyuan ; Liu, Fuqiang

Author_Institution

Broadband Wireless Commun. & Multimedia Lab., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1078

Lastpage

1082

Abstract

Vehicular wireless communication should be able to provide vehicles reliable and efficient data transmission for various especially safety applications. The multi-channel medium access control (MAC) mechanism is used to enhance the system performance. However, the current version of multi-channel MAC protocol based on IEEE1609.4 and IEEE802.11p is not fully applicable in vehicular environment. In this paper we present a distributed reliable multi-channel MAC architecture, which is specifically designed to provide distributed contention-free channel access, reliable packets delivery and efficient broadcast service. In addition to defining implementation details of our proposed protocol, we also conduct simulation evaluations and the results show that our proposed scheme performs better on critical statistics we are concerned.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; mobile radio; radio access networks; wireless channels; IEEE1609.4; IEEE802.11p; distributed contention-free channel access; distributed reliable multichannel MAC protocol; safety application; vehicular ad hoc networks; vehicular wireless communication; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Broadcasting; Data communication; Media Access Protocol; Performance evaluation; System performance; Telecommunication network reliability; Vehicle safety; Wireless communication; IEEE802.11p; Multi-channel MAC; RR-ALOHA; Vehicular ad hoc networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Xi´an

ISSN

1931-0587

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3503-6

Electronic_ISBN

1931-0587

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.2009.5164431

Filename

5164431