{"title":"Finite-state Markov channel modeling for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications","authors":"Siyu Lin, Yan Li, Yuanxuan Li, B. Ai, Z. Zhong","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953223","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate and mathematically tractable channel models are valuable tools in the network performance analysis and simulation. Most of Markov chain channel models are designed based on first-order Markov chain, which means that each channel state can only transit to the adjacent states. However, this assumption is no longer valid when the transceivers operate in high mobility scenarios, such as high speed vehicle communications. The fast time-varying characteristic of channel cannot be described by first-order Markov chain accurately. In this paper, we propose a novel finite-state Markov chain (FSMC) channel model for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications considering the fast time-varying fading with high mobility. The accurate closed form expressions of state transition probabilities between any two channel states are derived. The accuracy of the proposed Markov channel model is validated by the extensive simulation results. Furthermore, the effects of vehicle speed on state transition probabilities are discussed.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115873420","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}
Xuting Duan, Yue Yang, Daxin Tian, Yunpeng Wang, Tao Li
{"title":"A V2X communication system and its performance evaluation test bed","authors":"Xuting Duan, Yue Yang, Daxin Tian, Yunpeng Wang, Tao Li","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953212","url":null,"abstract":"IEEE 802.11p is the new standard for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication using 5.9GHz frequency band, which is widely employed to enable intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and cooperative vehicle infrastructure systems (CVIS). In this paper, we design and implement a testing platform of 802.11p-based dedicated short rang communications (DSRC), including a V2X communication system and a performance evaluation system. On the platform, the comprehensive performance of the prototype communication system can be tested and analyzed in terms of quality of services (QoS) metrics such as communication range, throughput, packet loss rate, delay and jitter. Extensive actual experiments have been conducted to validate the practical function of our developed platform as well as to demonstrate the efficiency of the 802.11p-based DSRC system.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114833323","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}
Waleed S. Alasmary, S. Valaee, Samah El-Tantawy, B. Abdulhai
{"title":"Frame-based mobility estimation via compressive sensing in delay-tolerant vehicular networks","authors":"Waleed S. Alasmary, S. Valaee, Samah El-Tantawy, B. Abdulhai","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953225","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the problem of estimating mobility trajectories via a small number of measurements from realistic mobility traces. We propose a frame-based solution to estimate the complete mobility trace at the end of the frame. During each frame, a few measurements are transmitted via vehicular communications, and then estimation is performed at the receiver. We propose different sampling schemes to estimate the mobility trajectory at the end of the frame, and we compare it to the actual mobility trace. The proposed scheme is designed as a practical system for vehicular mobility estimation, and is suitable for road traffic management applications. We study the proposed mobility estimation scheme via simulations with realistic mobility traces generated by Paramics simulator [1]. The data are based on a realistic map of the Gardinar Expressway in the city of Toronto. Extensive simulation results shows that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the number of transmitted samples while providing a good estimate of the mobility traces.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126306721","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}
N. Abdullah, A. Goulianos, Di Kong, E. Mellios, Denys Berkovskyy, A. Doufexi, A. Nix
{"title":"Infrastructure-to-vehicle throughput in TVWS for urban and rural environments","authors":"N. Abdullah, A. Goulianos, Di Kong, E. Mellios, Denys Berkovskyy, A. Doufexi, A. Nix","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953229","url":null,"abstract":"Currently TV whitespace is being considered by WLAN standards, namely the IEEE 802.11af or WhiteFi for enhanced coverage and access to additional bandwidth. The TV bands are harmonised worldwide and the white space is expected to be available globally, making it suitable for vehicular communications. This paper utilises a state-of-the-art 3D ray tracing tool, where road routes are defined in an urban and a rural environment to model realistic infrastructure-to-vehicle propagation in different scenarios. Based on the propagation analysis and link adaptation of SISO, STBC 2×2 and SM 2×2 schemes, the paper compares the coverage and throughput performance of WhiteFi against the legacy WiFi system. Results indicate that WhiteFi has better propagation characteristics than WiFi due to its lower operating frequency. Besides that, it is also shown that the performance of MIMO is critically dependent on the availability of independent spatial channels. Therefore, the full benefits of MIMO cannot be exploited in highly correlated channels especially in a rural scenario.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"61 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123137329","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}
Mingming Gan, Zhinan Xu, V. Shivaldova, A. Paier, F. Tufvesson, T. Zemen
{"title":"A ray tracing algorithm for intelligent transport systems in tunnels","authors":"Mingming Gan, Zhinan Xu, V. Shivaldova, A. Paier, F. Tufvesson, T. Zemen","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953210","url":null,"abstract":"It is well-known that the radio wave propagation mechanisms inside a tunnel are different from the typical outdoor and indoor situations. Since the tunnels represent a significant type of vehicular environments, understanding the channel characteristics for the in-tunnel scenario is crucial for intelligent transport systems design. A widely used tool for simulating channel characteristics for outdoor and indoor scenarios is a deterministic propagation prediction tool, known as ray tracing (RT). However, RT applied for tunnel scenarios has not been studied adequately. In this paper, we first evaluate the real-world in-tunnel vehicle-to-vehicle radio channel measurements on the basis of time-varying power delay profile analysis. Secondly we introduce a RT tool that includes influence of the moving objects, to predict wave propagation mechanisms in the tunnel. In order to reduce computational complexity of RT, we suggest to combine an approximate algorithm for the higher-order reflection components with conventional RT and use a novel subdivision algorithm for modeling the diffuse scattering. Combining the higher-order reflection algorithm with conventional RT allows us to obtain more accurate delay spread results. The numerical simulations show that contribution of both the higher-order reflection and the diffuse components are equally important for the in-tunnel scenarios.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131025604","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":"Antenna selection algorithm with improved channel predictor for vehicular environment","authors":"Mona Shemshaki, C. Mecklenbräuker","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953215","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems have become state-of-the-art in Wireless Local Area Networks due to the utilization of spatial diversity and spatial multiplexing. In such systems, the implementation cost imposed by increased hardware and software complexity is not negligible. Antenna selection is a potential low-cost MIMO solution. In this work, we analyse and discuss receive antenna selection in combination with channel prediction for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) scenarios in which the IEEE 802.11p frame structure is extended by additional preambles and a postamble.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131682039","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":"SDR-proved adaptive OFDM guard interval scheme for rapidly varying time-dispersive vehicular broadcast channels","authors":"Norman Franchi, M. Kloc, R. Weigel","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953259","url":null,"abstract":"Driven by the results of existing field measurements for the characterization of vehicular radio channels, particularly vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channels, which showed that the effective range of possible maximum delay spreads is extremely wide (ranging from a few ns up to several μs), the strategic choice of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) with fixed guard interval (GI) duration shall be reconsidered at that point. Here, the major claims, both to optimize the data throughput at good channel conditions and to enable a reliable transmission of safety critical information at harsh environmental conditions, must be taken into account. Thus, in this paper, an adaptive guard interval (AGI) length scheme in context of vehicular ad hoc broadcast communication networks with rapidly time-varying channel conditions is proposed. The approach enables an OFDM symbol-based GI estimation without the prior knowledge of the GI length used in the transmitted symbol. By this means different GI lengths can be detected even within a frame. The suggested approach could be used to improve actual and upcoming physical layer (PHY) specifications, e.g. of Std. IEEE 802.11p. For a physically realistic evaluation of the proposed scheme, a fully IEEE 802.11p standard-compliant and reconfigurable software-defined radio (SDR) transmitter with symbol-based adaptable GI processing but fixed symbol duration is presented.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133671118","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}
Dimitrios Vlastaras, T. Abbas, M. Nilsson, Russ Whiton, Magnus Olback, F. Tufvesson
{"title":"Impact of a truck as an obstacle on vehicle-to-vehicle communications in rural and highway scenarios","authors":"Dimitrios Vlastaras, T. Abbas, M. Nilsson, Russ Whiton, Magnus Olback, F. Tufvesson","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953226","url":null,"abstract":"Shadowing from other vehicles can degrade the performance of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems significantly. It is thus important to characterize and model the influence of common shadowing objects like trucks in a proper way. However, the scenario of a truck as an obstacle in highly dynamic rural and highway environments is not yet well understood. In this paper we analyze the distance dependent path loss and the additional shadowing loss due to a truck through dynamic measurements. We further characterize the large scale fading and the delay and Doppler spreads as a measure of the channel dispersion in the time and frequency domains. It has been found that a truck as an obstacle reduces the received power by 12 and 13 dB on average, for roof antennas, in rural and highway scenarios, respectively. Also, the dispersion in time and frequency domains is highly increased when the line-of-sight is obstructed by the truck.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129962161","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}
L. Urquiza-Aguiar, Andrés Vázquez Rodas, Carolina Tripp Barba, M. Aguilar-Igartua, Luis J. de la Cruz Llopis, Emilio Sanvicente Gargallo
{"title":"MAX-MIN based buffer allocation for VANETs","authors":"L. Urquiza-Aguiar, Andrés Vázquez Rodas, Carolina Tripp Barba, M. Aguilar-Igartua, Luis J. de la Cruz Llopis, Emilio Sanvicente Gargallo","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953231","url":null,"abstract":"Many proposals have studied the optimization of the EDCA mechanism used by the IEEE 802.11p MAC layer to provide QoS. In this work, we focus on the queuing process done by the different Access Categories (ACs). We propose the use of a single common buffer with a prioritized buffer allocation algorithm inspired on the MAX-MIN principle for a fair sharing of a common resource. We test the proposed algorithm with a fixed and a dynamic guaranteed queue size for each AC. Results obtained from simulations in a multihop VANET scenario show that our approach outperforms traditional queuing system used in MAC 802.11p.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126724184","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}
M. Fanaei, Amin Tahmasbi-Sarvestani, Y. P. Fallah, G. Bansal, M. Valenti, J. Kenney
{"title":"Adaptive content control for communication amongst cooperative automated vehicles","authors":"M. Fanaei, Amin Tahmasbi-Sarvestani, Y. P. Fallah, G. Bansal, M. Valenti, J. Kenney","doi":"10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953213","url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative automated vehicles exchange information to assist each other in creating a more precise and extended view of their surroundings, with the aim of improving automated-driving decisions. This paper addresses the need for scalable communication among these vehicles. To this end, a general communication framework is proposed through which automated cars exchange information derived from multi-resolution maps created using their local sensing modalities. This method can extend the region visible to a car beyond the area directly sensed by its own sensors. An adaptive, probabilistic, distance-dependent strategy is proposed that controls the content of the messages exchanged among vehicles based on performance measures associated with the load on the communication channel.","PeriodicalId":410528,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC 2014)","volume":"38 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114100938","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}