Performance and reliability of DSRC vehicular safety communication: a formal analysis

  • Authors:
  • Xiaomin Ma;Xianbo Chen;Hazem H. Refai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Engineering and Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on wireless access in vehicular environments
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

IEEE- and ASTM-adopted dedicated short range communications (DSRC) standard toward 802.11p is a key enabling technology for the next generation of vehicular safety communication. Broadcasting of safety messages is one of the fundamental services in DSRC. There have been numerous publications addressing design and analysis of such broadcast ad hoc system based on the simulations. For the first time, an analytical model is proposed in this paper to evaluate performance and reliability of IEEE 802.11a-based vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) safety-related broadcast services in DSRC system on highway. The proposed model takes two safety services with different priorities, nonsaturated message arrival, hidden terminal problem, fading transmission channel, transmission range, IEEE 802.11 backoff counter process, and highly mobile vehicles on highway into account. Based on the solutions to the proposed analytic model, closed-form expressions of channel throughput, transmission delay, and packet reception rates are derived. From the obtained numerical results under various offered traffic and network parameters, new insights and enhancement suggestions are given.