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Congestion control for vehicular safety: synchronous and asynchronous MAC algorithms

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Xinzhou WuAuthors Info & Claims

VANET '12: Proceedings of the ninth ACM international workshop on Vehicular inter-networking, systems, and applications

Pages 63 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/2307888.2307900

Published: 25 June 2012 Publication History

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The IEEE 802.11p standard specifies the PHY and MAC layer operations for transmitting and receiving periodic broadcast messages for vehicular safety. Many studies have identified issues with the CSMA based IEEE 802.11p MAC at high densities of devices, mainly reflected by low packet reception rate. In this paper, we make an interesting observation that with increasing density, the IEEE 802.11p MAC tends towards an ALOHA-type behavior where concurrent transmissions by close-by devices are not prevented. This behavior can lead to poor packet reception rate even for vehicles in close neighborhood.

Many efforts have been made to address the IEEE 802.11p MAC issues to provide better performance for DSRC safety applications, including the introduction of Decentralized Congestion Control (DCC) algorithm to ETSI standards in Europe. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the proposed DCC algorithm and observe that the nominal parameters in DCC are unsuitable in many scenarios. Using transmit power control as an example, we develop a simple rule within the DCC framework that can significantly improve the safety packet reception performance with increasing densities. The DCC algorithms are fully compatible with the IEEE 802.11p standards and asynchronous in nature.

A parallel approach to handle high device densities is a slotted synchronous MAC, where time is slotted based on GPS synchronization and each transmitter contends for a set of recurring time slots (or channels) with periodicity matching the required safety message periodicity. As compared to the per-packet based contention scheme as in CSMA defined in IEEE 802.11, such a scheme is much better suited for periodic safety broadcast. In this paper, we design a standard compliant TDM overlay on top of the MAC layer that can significantly improve the packet reception performance. Combined with a distributed resource selection protocol, the synchronous MAC can discover even more neighboring devices than the improved asynchronous approach, making DSRC safety applications more reliable.

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Vehicular Safety Communications Project Task 3. 2005.

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