Time Division Multiple Access For Vehicular Communications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Hassan Aboubakr Omar, Weihua Zhuang

   Pages 1-7

3. System Model

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   Pages 9-12

4. The VeMAC Protocol

   • Hassan Aboubakr Omar, Weihua Zhuang

   Pages 13-38

5. VeMAC Performance Evaluation for VANET Safety Applications

   • Hassan Aboubakr Omar, Weihua Zhuang

   Pages 39-58

6. Conclusions and Future Works

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   Pages 59-60

This brief focuses on medium access control (MAC) in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), and presents VeMAC, a novel MAC scheme based on distributed time division multiple access (TDMA) for VANETs. The performance of VeMAC is evaluated via mathematical analysis and computer simulations in comparison with other existing MAC protocols, including the IEEE 802.11p standard. This brief aims at proposing TDMA as a suitable MAC scheme for VANETs, which can support the quality-of-service requirements of high priority VANET applications.

• IEEE 802.11p
• Medium access control
• Safety message broadcast
• TDMA
• VANET

• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Hassan Aboubakr Omar, Weihua Zhuang

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