Abstract

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) and their diverse applications experience growing interest in both academic and industry. Different types of traffic packets delivered through vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications are intended to improve passenger safety and comfort. In this paper, we propose a multiple priority supported Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for VANETs based on the time slotted p-persistent channel access mechanism. The protocol differentiates the services packets into multi-priority on the Control Channel (CCH). Theoretical analysis based on Markov model is presented to optimize the transmission probabilities of the packets with different priorities, as well as the adjustable intervals of the CCH and the Services Channels (SCHs). Both analytical results and simulation experiments show that the proposed MAC protocol is able to ensure the prioritized transmission of the safety packets and also achieve optimal system performance with respect to saturated throughput.

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