Measurement of IEEE 802.11p Performance for Basic Safety Messages in Vehicular Communications

Abstract

This paper present: (i) an experimental study for performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11p vehicular communications and (ii) creation of dataset for IEEE 802.11p vehicular communications, while transmitting Basic Safety Messages. Two relevant metrics Latency and Received Signal Strength Indicator have been used for both performance evaluation and creation of dataset. However, the dataset also contains other information like position of the vehicle, packet receiving time, transmitting power etc., while transmitting each such packet. The physical experiments were performed using IEEE 802.11p compliant communication devices. The conducted experiments disclosed many important insights related to the performance of IEEE 802.11p. To the best of knowledge, the data set created and the measurements taken for considered parameters presented in this paper are first of their kinds. These results and dataset would be helpful in future research works in the relevant area.