Abstract

We consider a VoD (Video on-Demand) platform designed for vehicles traveling on a highway or other major roadway. Typically, cars or buses would subscribe to this delivery service so that their passengers get access to a catalog of movies and series stored on a back-end server. The network infrastructure comprises IEEE 802.11p RSUs (Road Side Units) that are deployed along the highway and deliver video content to traveling vehicles. In this paper, we propose a simple analytical and yet accurate solution to estimate two key performance parameters for a VoD platform: (i) the average download data rate experienced by vehicles over their journey and (ii) the average “interruption time”, which corresponds to the fraction of time the video playback of a given vehicle is interrupted because of an empty buffer. Through multiple examples, we investigate the influence of several parameters (e.g., the video bit rate, the number of vehicles, the distance between RSUs, the vehicle velocity) on these two performance parameters whose outcome may help the sizing of an IEEE 802.11p-based VoD platform.

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