Experimental characterization of multi-hop communications in vehicular ad hoc network

  • Authors:
  • Fay Hui;Prasant Mohapatra

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Davis, CA;University of California, Davis, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents the performance measurement of TCP and UDP communication of a multi-hop Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) in highway and suburban areas. We use existing out-of-box IEEE 802.11b wireless cards on inter-vehicle communication between three cars. Also, we conduct experiments with three static nodes for baseline comparisons with the moving nodes. We then derive inferences in three major areas: (1) providing adjustable network parameters to manage network instabilities, (2) improving UDP efficiency by detecting out-of-touch receivers early, and (3) using speed, route, and distance to improve routing protocols.