Performance Observations on MAC Protocols of VANETs in Intelligent Transportation System

Author

Cuyu, Chang ; Yong, Xiang ; Meilin, Shi ; Liang, Lin

Author_Institution

Sci. of Comput. Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

6-8 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

373

Lastpage

379

Abstract

In the vehicle communication system based on ADHOC network, besides fairness, QoS, hidden and exposed terminal problems, the MAC protocol must fulfill the requirement of practical applications. In order to decrease the transmission collisions in VANETs, a reliable and efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is needed. Firstly, this paper introduces the applications, the characteristics of VANETs, and the difficulties of MAC protocols in VANETs. Secondly, based on different reactive routing protocols, various MAC protocols (wireless LAN and Adhoc MAC) applied to VANETs are theoretically compared and analyzed for sub-urban, urban, and freeway situations. A qualitative comparison of VANETs MAC protocols were given. Finally, the goals and the design essentials of transmission control in VANET are proposed.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; automated highways; automotive electronics; computer network performance evaluation; wireless LAN; MAC protocols; VANET; ad hoc MAC; ad hoc network; intelligent transportation system; medium access control; transmission collision; vehicle communication system; wireless LAN; Access protocols; Communication systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Media Access Protocol; Routing protocols; Telecommunication network reliability; Transport protocols; Vehicles; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Mobile Computing, 2009. CMC '09. WRI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yunnan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3501-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMC.2009.99

Filename

4797151