On the Performance of Beaconing in 802.11p/WAVE Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

• Cooperative vehicular applications, like collision avoidance, driver assistance, and cruise control require that vehicles become aware of other vehicles in the surroundings. This cooperative awareness is achieved by beaconing, the exchange of periodical single-hop broadcast short status message that include data about the position, the speed, and the heading of a vehicle. Although several works have studied beaconing techniques both from an analytical point of view and through simulative study, none of the existing works has investigated how beaconing works on top of 802.11p/WAVE (Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment), the upcoming standard intended to deliver both safety and non-safety applications to vehicles on the roads. According to it, safety and control messages are expected to be delivered on a given frequency during a common control channel (CCH) interval set by the WAVE draft standard. The rest of the time, vehicles switch over one of available service channel (SCH) frequencies for non-safety related data exchange. In this paper we discuss and evaluate through numerical results the main effects the WAVE channel switching procedures have on beaconing. © 2010 by IEICE

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

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vehicular ad hoc network

802.11p

WAVE

beacon

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