A bandwidth-efficient and fair CSMA/TDMA based multichannel MAC scheme for V2V communications

Nasser Torabi () and Behrouz Shahgholi Ghahfarokhi
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Nasser Torabi: University of Isfahan
Behrouz Shahgholi Ghahfarokhi: University of Isfahan

Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management, 2017, vol. 64, issue 2, No 10, 367-390

Abstract: Abstract Designing QoS-aware medium access control (MAC) scheme is a challenging issue in vehicular ad hoc networks. Proportional fairness and bandwidth utilization are among the significant requirements that should be taken into account by a MAC scheme. In this paper, a bandwidth-efficient and fair multichannel MAC protocol is proposed to address these two requirements, specifically in vehicle-to-vehicle communications. The proposed scheme is based on clustering of vehicles and exploits time division multiple access (TDMA) method alongside the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance mechanism to allocate DSRC-based resources in a different manner from IEEE 802.11p/IEEE 1609.4 protocols. It divides each channel into aligned dynamic-sized time frames. In each time frame, in a fully TDMA-based period, transmission opportunities are assigned to vehicles letting them have dedicated transmissions on the service and control channels. The maximum number of transmission opportunities per each frame is determined by the cluster head (CH) based on a defined optimization problem which aims at maximizing both proportional fairness and bandwidth utilization. Furthermore, the bandwidth utilization is assumed to be enhanced more through reallocation of unused transmission opportunities in each time frame, using a proposed reallocation algorithm. The proposed MAC protocol is treated as a lightweight scheme such that various types of unicast, multicast and broadcast communications are possible within the cluster without involving the CH. Evaluation results show that the proposed scheme has more than 90 % achievement in terms of proportional fairness and bandwidth utilization simultaneously, and in this case, has a considerable superiority over TC-MAC. In addition, using the proposed scheme, the satisfaction level of vehicles is preserved appropriately.

Keywords: Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs); Medium access control (MAC); Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications; Proportional fairness; Bandwidth utilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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