Analysis on connectivity performance for vehicular ad hoc networks subjected to user behavior

The user behavior is one of the key factors to impact the communication performance of vehicular ad hoc networks. Generally, more active vehicles can enhance the connectivity performance. Nevertheless, an increasing number of active vehicles may bring about significant interference and thus negatively affect the connectivity. In this paper, a highway model is presented to study the effects of active vehicle ratio on connectivity performance in the presence of co-channel interference. A closed form expression of the inter-vehicle connectivity probability is also derived to evaluate the impacts of active ratio, traffic flow, and fading factors under Nakagami fading channel. Analytical results of inter-vehicle connectivity probability are shown to be consistent with the simulation results, and can be applied to estimate connectivity performance with interference in the network design for highway vehicular scenarios.