Heng-Wei Tsai, Chien Chen, Chien-Chung Shen, R. Jan, Hsia-Hsin Li
{"title":"Maintaining cohesive fleets via swarming with small-world communications","authors":"Heng-Wei Tsai, Chien Chen, Chien-Chung Shen, R. Jan, Hsia-Hsin Li","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416386","url":null,"abstract":"A car fleet is a group of cars that should travel close together at a common speed. Due to dynamic road conditions, traffic signals, road speed limits and other factors, a car fleet may suffer from frequent partition. This paper proposes a distributed cohesive car fleet maintenance scheme by employing a swarming model complemented by a small world phenomenon. Vehicles within a car fleet are classified into the roles of pseudo-leader and follower. Within each partition, cars form a cohesive swarm by coordinating their speed and position via short-distance V2V communications. To exchange information between partitions of a dispersed cat fleet, pseudo-leaders communicate via long-distance V2I communications, which resemble the shortcuts of the small world phenomenon. Pseudo-leaders then determine their relative positions within the car fleet, and decide to speed up or slow down so as to achieve a cohesive swarming behavior of the entire car fleet. Merits of the distributed scheme are demonstrated through simulations.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127188476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative service channel reservation to improve performances of IEEE 802.11p/WAVE networks","authors":"C. Campolo, Alessandro Cortese, A. Molinaro","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416385","url":null,"abstract":"The upcoming IEEE802.11p/WAVE (Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment) standard is intended to deliver both safety and non-safety applications to vehicles on the roads. Despite huge research on safety traffic, only a few works have investigated non-safety comfort and entertainment applications (e.g., multimedia, web browsing, e-maps) when considering the WAVE standard features and capabilities. In this paper, we focus on the effective transport of non-safety applications and design a cooperative scheme among WAVE service providers for the reservation of non-interfering channels dedicated to non-safety traffic. The proposal, which is fully compliant with the IEEE802.11p/WAVE standard, by lowering contention among providers, improves the performances of applications delivered over the service channels.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121984790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A distributed traffic navigation system using vehicular communication","authors":"R. Guha, Wai Chen","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416381","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic congestion leads to significant cost in terms of time, money and influence on the environment. To alleviate the effect through situational awareness, various traffic service providers aggregate traffic information using a variety of inputs such as probes, toll collection etc. This aggregated information is fed back to the drivers to achieve congestion avoidance and provide arrival-time estimates. In this paper, we outline a framework for a distributed vehicle traffic navigation system. The proposed system leverages a multi-hop vehicular network to gather local information. Such information can be elusive to traffic service providers in terms of timeliness and accuracy. Based on the gathered information, a distributed scheme is proposed that locally determines the shortest time travel paths. The proposed system can function independently or can complement an existing infrastructure-based system and can capture the dependence between route decisions of different vehicles in a given area. Based on performance evaluations, we observe that the proposed protocol can significantly enhance local route decisions leading to better traffic flow and road utilization.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127936463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RR-Aloha+: A slotted and distributed MAC protocol for vehicular communications","authors":"H. A. Cozzetti, R. Scopigno","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416375","url":null,"abstract":"The state of the art of vehicular communications includes extensive investigations on distributed-contention approaches (mostly focused on WiFi CSMA/CA optimal and/or custom configurations), while scalable solutions for a distributed but contention-free wireless architecture remain unexplored. In this paper, starting from an existing protocol called RR-Aloha, we propose some novel extensions to it, in order to solve some technical open issues, improve its scalability and overcome some criticalities concerning the dynamic setting of vehicular mobility. The study is based both on conceptual tests and on PC simulations on NS-2 (Network Simulator). The proposed scenarios are meant to validate the extensions and confirm the feasibility; the preliminary results show that the enhanced RR-Aloha+ 1 may actually exert a potentially relevant role in the vehicular communications, with a deterministic, reservation-based, QoS-capable and distributed access channel.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130054785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE 1609.4 DSRC multi-channel operations and its implications on vehicle safety communications","authors":"Qi Chen, D. Jiang, L. Delgrossi","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416394","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an overview of IEEE 1609.4, a work in progress standard for multi-channel operations over the 5.9GHz Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) spectrum. In the U.S., the DSRC spectrum is organized into several channels. IEEE 1609.4 defines a time-division scheme for DSRC radios to alternately switch within these channels to support different applications concurrently. We describe the main features of IEEE 1609.4 in detail and discuss the main concerns with the original protocol design. In particular, we focus on those issues that can have a significant impact on vehicle safety communications. While IEEE 1609.4 is currently being updated and revised, this paper is intended to contribute to the technical discussions, and to bring attention to the most relevant and critical issues. This paper also contains results from software simulations conducted to study vehicle safety communications under stressful but realistic conditions. These results confirm concerns for the currently proposed scheme and provide a motivation for updating and revising the standard.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130078176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent strategies of access point selection for vehicle to infrastructure opportunistic communications","authors":"I. Amdouni, F. Filali","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416391","url":null,"abstract":"The low price of commodity wireless LAN cards and access points (APs) has resulted in the rich proliferation of high density WLANs in enterprises, academic environments, and public spaces. In such environments, wireless clients have a variety of affiliation options. The state of the art mechanism behind such a decision typically relies on received signal strength indicator (RSSI). This approach however, might yield unbalanced traffic load among APs. In this paper, we design intelligent AP selection algorithms for Vehicle to wireless Infrastructure opportunistic (unplanned) communications (V2I). Our objective is to increase the distance for which the vehicle is in the coverage area of the selected AP. This distance is quantified based on realistic criteria like the distance between the vehicle and the AP and the direction of the vehicle. We design two intelligent approaches: SAPS (Scan-based AP Selection), and HAPS (History-based AP Selection). Through a simulation study, we demonstrated that SAPS and HAPS, compared to RSSI-based solution, achieve lower overhead and higher amount of data in a region with an average density of APs. Our findings show also that much data would be transferred at lower speeds. Moreover, either SAPS or HAPS permits to the vehicle to efficiently profit from the time it is associated to an AP more than a classic solution based on the RSSI do.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115805778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterization of vacant UHF TV channels for vehicular dynamic spectrum access","authors":"S. Pagadarai, A. Wyglinski, Rama Vuyyuru","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416371","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative results obtained as a result of a TV spectrum measurement campaign. We used these measurements to characterize vacant TV channels a along major interstate highway (I-90) in the state of Massachusetts, USA. By characterizing the availability of vacant TV channels in the 470–806 MHz frequency range, we show the trends in the availability of vacant channels from a vehicular dynamic spectrum access perspective. We also describe the design constraints imposed on a point-to-multipoint communications based architecture in such a setting. Specifically, we described a general geo-location database approach to create a spectral map of available channels in a given geographical area. We presented the results obtained by applying such a technique in the state of MA over several locations on I-90. Furthermore, we presented a discussion on the implications of the non-contiguous channel availability in the TV spectrum on the design of a cognitive radio transceiver from the perspective of vehicular communications. In our future work, we will be presenting a comparative study of the channel availability in the above mentioned geographical area before and after the switch-over carried out on June 12, 2009.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129825035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adaptive forwarding mechanism for data dissemination in vehicular networks","authors":"Nestor Mariyasagayam, H. Menouar, M. Lenardi","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416360","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient dissemination of messages in a Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) still face many challenges in the current research scenario. This paper addresses the problem of redundant forwarding of messages that occur during broad- cast and proposes an adaptive forwarding mechanism which controls the amount of redundant messages thereby improving message dissemination over a VANET. The mechanism will enable a node to efficiently forward a message and at the same time refrain other potential forwarders of the same message in a chosen area to forward the message. The algorithm exploits the density of nodes on the network for its functionality and will make an adaptive sector under which the redundant nodes will be refrained from sending the same message. The area of the sector for a particular node will be proportional to the density of its neighbors that are within the node's communication range. The proposal assumes that the nodes in the VANET are aware of their surroundings up to a certain area by periodic exchange of location information from each of the nodes. The mechanism will enable routing algorithms and/or beaconing systems to consume lesser bandwidth and thereby enhance the efficiency of the algorithm itself.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129929641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A delay time analysis for multi-hop V2V communications over a linear VANET","authors":"J. Fukuyama","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416368","url":null,"abstract":"Due to their highly dynamic nature, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are occasionally found difficult for their parameter optimization. Some attempts have been made to challenge the difficulty by modeling VANETs mathematically to predict parameter values successfully such as average cluster size and the lifetime of a path. Nevertheless, there have been no systematic approaches to analyze both node mobility and communication performances over a VANET by investigating its microspopic conditions.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121866877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shinji Nakai, T. Maruoka, Haokun Wang, T. Wada, H. Okada
{"title":"Development of substitution system for vehicular collision avoidance support system (VCASS) by personal mobile terminal - S-VCASS -","authors":"Shinji Nakai, T. Maruoka, Haokun Wang, T. Wada, H. Okada","doi":"10.1109/VNC.2009.5416387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2009.5416387","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, many researches and developments on ITS have been carried out to solve many problems in road traffic. IVC (Inter-Vehicular Communications) is the key technology to realize the next generation ITS. Vehicles install telecommunication equipments, and exchange safety information directly with each other.","PeriodicalId":228148,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123794334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}