Study of Beaconing for Car-to-Car Communication in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

IEEE 802.11p is currently being developed international standard, which specifies physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) protocols for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication and should become a basis for safety-related and infotainment applications in future vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). In VANETs beaconing is one of the most important communication modes, which is used to advertise the presence of a car to its neighbor cars. For different applications timely and successful delivery of beacons containing speed, direction and position of a car is extremely important. In this paper, we present analytical methods for car-to-car communication analysis and investigate the influence of beacon generation rate on the mean beacon transmission delay and probability of a successful beacon reception in the IEEE 802.11p-based network in both saturated and unsaturated cases.