Traffic control using WiMAX with Dual Trigger Handover

Author

El-Dakroury, M.A. ; Zekry, Abdel Halim ; Amer, H.H. ; Daoud, R.M.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Eng. Dept., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2010

fDate

27-28 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

55

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of traffic control in a vehicular environment. Data exchanged between vehicles and the infrastructure is based on the Stigmergic approach. WiMAX (IEEE Std 802.16e) is used for Infrastructure to Vehicle (I2V) communication. An architecture is proposed with the aim of minimizing packet loss. OPNET simulations are used to optimize this architecture for different Inter-Packet Transmission times as well as several vehicle speeds. An expected increase in performance is observed when comparing with similar work based on a modified WiFi communication scheme for I2V. In order to further increase system performance, Dual Trigger Handover (DTH) is used and OPNET simulations indicate that DTH reduces packet loss by up to 29%.

Keywords

WiMax; mobile radio; road traffic; IEEE Std 802.16e; OPNET; WiMAX; dual trigger handover; infrastructure to vehicle communication; inter packet transmission; packet loss; stigmergic approach; traffic control; vehicular environment; Distance measurement; Manganese; Network topology; Silicon; Switches; Dual Trigger Handover; Intelligent Transportation systems; Mobility; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), 2010 International

Conference_Location

Giza

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-184-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICENCO.2010.5720425

Filename

5720425