A multi-channel cooperative clustering-based MAC protocol for VANETs

Author

Fan Yang ; Yuliang Tang ; Lianfen Huang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Xiamen Univ., Xiamen, China

fYear

2014

fDate

9-11 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) have attracted much attention from both academia and industry. However, it is very challenging to design an efficient MAC protocol to meet QoS demands of different applications in VANETs, because of the unreliable channel and node mobility. On the other hand, cooperative communication has been proved effective to mitigate wireless channel impairments and increase the reliability of communications. In this paper, a multi-channel cooperative clustering-based MAC protocol is presented to improve the reliability of transmission and provision QoS for different applications in VANETs. The performance of this scheme is verified through mathematical analysis and simulations.

Keywords

access protocols; cooperative communication; pattern clustering; quality of service; telecommunication network reliability; vehicular ad hoc networks; wireless channels; QoS demand; VANET; cooperative communication reliability; mathematical analysis; multichannel cooperative clustering based MAC protocol; node mobility; quality of service; vehicular ad hoc network; wireless channel transmission reliability; Ad hoc networks; Media Access Protocol; Reliability; Safety; Vehicles; Wireless communication; TDMA; VANET; clustering scheme; cooperative MAC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), 2014

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WTS.2014.6835009

Filename

6835009