Wireless Access In Vehicular Environments Research Articles

Proportional fair resource allocation in vehicle-to-infrastructure networks for drive-thru Internet applications

IEEE 802.11p, also known as wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE), defines amendments to IEEE 802.11 to support Intelligent Transportation Systems applications. In a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) network, the same road side unit (RSU) will be shared by more than one vehicle. When vehicles within the coverage of the same RSU use distinct data rates for transmission, an unfairness problem occurs among them, popularly known as performance anomaly. Essentially, the vehicle with the lowest data rate slows all other vehicles down to its rate, resulting in poor use of the wireless medium and reduced performance for all vehicles. This problem is caused by the 802.11 DCF protocol which provides unfair channel time allocation for vehicles with different data rates. In addition to the performance anomaly caused by the multiple data rates, vehicles in a multi-lane network (where lane i is being used by vehicles of mean velocity μvi), suffer from an access unfairness problem as well, due to the fact that vehicles having different mean velocities get unequal chances for channel access. Both these unfairness problems can significantly degrade the network performance. In this paper, we investigate the use of proportional fairness (PF) as the basis of resource allocation in a multi-rate multi-lane V2I network for drive-thru Internet applications. In this case, RSU is shared by vehicles that transmit at distinct data rates and moving with different mean velocities. We use the notion of PF resource allocation to resolve the unfairness problems and to improve the aggregate data transferred in the network. We find analytical expressions for the optimal setting of CWmin values to ensure proportional fair allocation in both single-lane as well as multi-lane multi-rate V2I networks. Through analytical and simulation results, we establish that the notion of proportional fair utility criterion can improve the aggregate data transferred as compared to the default CWmin setting.

Proactive Caching and Forwarding Schemes for Seamless Handover in IEEE WAVE Networks

The IEEE Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment (WAVE) standard consists of the IEEE 802.11p and the IEEE 1609 specifications supporting fast link establishment as well as broadband data communication in vehicular environment. Although the standard has been widely accepted by industry as well as highway authorities in many countries to be used for the radio communication infrastructure of the next-generation Intelligent Transport System (ITS), it remains open for further enhancements such as seamless handover support. This paper presents two proactive caching and forwarding schemes for seamless handover in IEEE WAVE networks: one for straight highway sections and the other for crossroads and junctions. Practical and efficient handover procedures, based on the proposed schemes, are also presented. Specifically, an on-board unit (OBU) informs the old road-side unit (RSU) about its departure from the coverage area such that the old RSU can forward the buffered packets to candidate RSUs for proactive caching. In handover scenarios around crossroads and junctions, the IEEE 802.11f Move-notify message is used by the new RSU to request the rest of candidate RSUs to purge the cached packets in order to prevent the waste of radio resource. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes outperform conventional schemes.

Raptor codes‐aided relaying for vehicular infotainment applications

Even though the main motivation behind wireless access for vehicular environments was to support time-sensitive safety applications, typical Internet applications are also required to attract private investment that would help expand the network and reduce the cost of implementing the systems. It is well known that the Automatic Repeat reQuest scheme used in the current IEEE 802.11p standard is highly inefficient for vehicular applications. Therefore a raptor-coded decode-and-forward relaying scheme with an efficient feedback channel, named the ‘r-DF scheme’ for infrastructure-to-vehicle infotainment applications is proposed in this study. The scheme is evaluated using a multi-layered simulator combining a realistic IEEE 802.11p physical and MAC layer design considering the presence of interference in a highway and an urban scenario. The simulation shows that the scheme achieved up to double the average aggregate throughput and tens of decoding time improvements over the state-of-the-art.

Performance Analysis for Priority-Based Broadcast in Vehicular Networks

Transportation safety is one of the most important applications of vehicular ad hoc networks which is based on IEEE 802.11p. When a vehicle is in an emergency situation, a safety-related message is transmitted to the neighboring vehicles and infrastructures. Vehicles and infrastructures exchange periodic messages on vehicle position, traffic information, and so forth to provide various services. When the traffic load is very high, the emergency message cannot be delivered immediately. To overcome this situation, a priority-based transmission scheme is considered to guarantee the transmission of the emergency message. In this paper, the performance of vehicular communication networks is analyzed in two perspectives. Firstly, an analytical Markov chain model for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) ad hoc communication networks is proposed for broadcasting messages with priority based on the IEEE 802.11p wireless access for vehicular environments (WAVE) standard. Secondly, an analytic queuing model for vehicular communication networks is proposed to evaluate the network performance to deal with safety and nonsafety messages.

테스트베드상에서 WAVE기반 차량통신 시스템의 서비스 구현

차량통신은 IT기술과 차량산업을 결합한 대표적인 융합기술이다. WAVE 기술은 전 세계적으로 널리 채택되어 사용되어지고 있는 차량통신 표준이다. 본 논문에서는 WAVE 시스템 이용하여 실제 테스트베드상에서 구현한 서비스에 대해 소개한다. 먼저 전체적인 WAVE 시스템에 대해 간략히 살펴본 후 서비스를 구현하기 위한 테트스베드에 대해 소개하고, 테스트베드상에서 구현된 차량간통신 및 차량 기지국간통신을 이용한 다양한 응용 서비스에 대해 알아본다. 실제 응용 서비스의 구현을 바탕으로 하여 실제 시스템 구현에 필요한 사항 및 다른 분야와의 융합분야에 대해서도 논의한다. Vehicular communication is one of representative convergence technology which combines information technology and vehicle industry. Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) technology is vehicular communication standard which is widely used in the world. In this paper, we introduce service realization of WAVE based vehicular communication systems in the practical testbed. We review the overall WAVE based systems in brief and introduce the testbed. Then, we investigate various applications using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. Based on realization of systems, we discuss practical implementation issues and the convergence area of WAVE systems.

Design of u-Transportation Communication Systems for Next-Generation ITS Services

Next-generation ITS(Intelligent Transportation System) adopts WAVE(Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment) system which is capable of the bidirectional communication system in vehicular environments. u-Transportation system adopted WAVE communications system to show the optimal performance in terms of various services with regard to vehicle safety and traffic. In this paper, we introduce testbed of ubiquitous-Transportation system and its service. Then, we describe WAVE system for supporting next-generation ITS service. Also, we carried out tests in real road environments in order to verify communication functions of WAVE systems and its performance. We confirmed that our communication systems for supporting services meet the communication performance.

In VANET single Network types i.e. WAVE is not sufficient to provide QoS. UMTS in integration with WAVE can provide efficient network connectivity – A Survey

This survey provides an insight to the Qualtity of Service (QoS) provision in Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANET) through Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) and Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). In order to provide ubiquitous and pervasive connectivity for the high mobility vehicular networks in dynamically changing context and service adapting situations, careful techniques must be adopted to provide QoS in VANET applications. To address different implementation scenarios and overcome the shortcomings of WAVE and UMTS, I some alternatives were captured to improve QoS in VANET either by amalgamating WAVE/UMTS or through some other viable protocols

Performance Analysis of a Multi-Channel MAC with Dynamic CCH Interval in WAVE System

To improve the throughput performance of the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) system, we propose a multi-channel MAC protocol that is able to adaptively adjust the intervals of Control Channel (CCH) and Service Channel (SCH) according to the probability distribution of the reservation time for service packet in CCH Interval. Numerical results show that our protocol can significantly improve the performance of WAVE system.

Overview of Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) Protocols and Standards

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) series of standards for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) is currently considered as the most promising technology for vehicular networks. It aims to support interoperability and robust safety communications in a vehicular environment. The first trial version of WAVE standard was released in 2006, Most of the published review studies were done on the old trail versions. This study reviews the latest released version of the IEEE WAVE standard, reflects the state of art in WAVE technology, and presents the status of each standard in the IEEE 1609 series of standards. IEEE 1609 series contains four standards that are under development, three are published and one is already withdrawn. Then the study discusses the technical details of IEEE 1609.4 for multi-channel operation and highlights the new features of WAVE Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The study also describes the services and protocols that are provided by IEEE 1609.3 as a network service standard. Frame format that is used in standards are also exposed.

Design of an Integration Platform for V2X Wireless Communications and Positioning Supporting C-ITS Safety Applications

In this paper, an integrated inter-vehicles wireless communications and positioning system supporting alternate positioning techniques is proposed to meet the requirements of safety applications of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS). Recent advances have repeatedly demonstrated that road safety problems can be to a large extent addressed via a range of technologies including wireless communications and positioning in vehicular environments. The novel communication stack utilizing a dedicated frequency spectrum (e.g. at 5.9 GHz band), known as Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC), has been particularly designed for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) to support safety applications in highly dynamic environments. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is another essential enabler to support safety on rail and roads. Although current vehicle navigation systems such as single frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers can provide route guidance with 5-10 meters (road-level) position accuracy, positioning systems utilized in C-ITS must provide position solutions with lane-level and even in-lane-level accuracies based on the requirements of safety applications. This article reviews the issues and technical approaches that are involved in designing a vehicular safety communications and positioning architecture; it also provides technological solutions to further improve vehicular safety by integrating the DSRC and GNSS-based positioning technologies.

Improving vehicular safety message delivery through the implementation of a cognitive vehicular network

The Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) protocol stack has been recently defined to enable vehicular communication on the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) frequencies. Some recent studies have demonstrated that the WAVE technology might not provide sufficient spectrum for reliable exchange of safety information over congested urban scenarios. In this paper, we address this issue, and present a novel cognitive network architecture in order to dynamically extend the Control Channel (CCH) used by vehicles to transmit safety-related information. To this aim, we propose a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme, through which vehicles can detect available spectrum resources on the 5.8GHz ISM band along their path, and forward the data to a fixed infrastructure known as Road Side Units (RSUs). We design a novel Fuzzy-Logic based spectrum allocation algorithm, through which the RSUs infer the actual CCH contention conditions, and dynamically extend the CCH bandwidth in network congestion scenarios, by using the vacant frequencies detected by the sensing module. The simulation results reveal the effectiveness of our architecture in providing dynamic and scalable allocation of spectrum resources, and in increasing the performance of safety-related applications.

V2V-Intersection Management at Roundabouts

More than 44% of all automotive crashes occur in intersections. These incidents in intersections result in more than 8,500 fatalities and approximately 1 million injuries each year in USA [1,18]. It is also established that roundabouts are safer than junctions. According to a study of a sampling of roundabouts in the United States, when compared with the junctions they replaced, roundabouts have 40% fewer vehicle collisions, 80% fewer injuries and 90% fewer serious injuries and fatalities [14]. In earlier work [2,12], we have proposed a family of vehicular network protocols, which use Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) and Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) technologies to coordinate a vehicle’s movement through intersections. We have shown that vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications can be used to avoid collisions at the intersection and also significantly decrease the trip delays introduced by traffic lights and stop signs. In this paper, we investigate the use of our proposed V2V-intersection protocols for autonomous driving at roundabouts. We have extended our hybrid emulator-simulator called AutoSim to implement realistic map and mobility models to study traffic flow at roundabouts and have implemented our V2Vintersection protocols on roundabouts. We quantify the improvement in safety and throughput when our intersection protocols are used to traverse roundabouts.

VIP-WAVE: On the Feasibility of IP Communications in 802.11p Vehicular Networks

Vehicular communication networks, such as the 802.11p and Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) technologies, are becoming a fundamental platform for providing real-time access to safety and entertainment information. In particular, infotainment applications and, consequently, IP-based communications, are key to leverage market penetration and deployment costs of the 802.11p/WAVE network. However, the operation and performance of IP in 802.11p/WAVE are still unclear as the WAVE standard guidelines for being IP compliant are rather minimal. This paper studies the 802.11p/WAVE standard and its limitations for the support of infrastructure-based IP applications, and proposes the Vehicular IP in WAVE (VIP-WAVE) framework. VIP-WAVE defines the IP configuration for extended and non-extended IP services, and a mobility management scheme supported by Proxy Mobile IPv6 over WAVE. It also exploits multi-hop communications to improve the network performance along roads with different levels of infrastructure presence. Furthermore, an analytical model considering mobility, handoff delays, collisions, and channel conditions is developed for evaluating the performance of IP communications in WAVE. Extensive simulations are performed to demonstrate the accuracy of our analytical model and the effectiveness of VIP-WAVE in making feasible the deployment of IP applications in the vehicular network.

차량 통신 기술을 위한 OFDM 모듈레이션의 64-비트 스크램블러 설계

WAVE 시스템은 IEEE 802.11p표준으로 지능형 교통시스템 서비스에 응용되는 새로운 개념 및 차량 통신 기술이다. 또한 WAVE 시스템은 도로상의 트래픽의 효율과 안전을 높인다. 그러나 WAVE 시스템의 OFDM 모듈레이션에서 스크램블러 비트 연산 알고리즘은 하드웨어나 소프트웨어 측면에서 병렬 처리가 불가능하므로 효율성이 떨어지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 스크램블러의 비트 연산으로 64비트 행렬 테이블을 구성하는 알고리즘과 64비트 행렬 테이블과 입력 데이터를 병렬 연산하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 64비트 행렬 테이블을 적용하여 실행한 결과 비트연산 스크램블러보다 1회와 10000회 처리 속도는 약 40.08%-40.27%가 향상되고, 초당 처리 횟수는 468.35회 더 수행할 수 있고, 32비트 스크램블러보다 1회와 10000회 처리 속도는 약 7.53%-7.84%가 향상되고, 초당 처리 횟수는 91.44회 더 수행할 수 있다. 따라서 64비트로 연산하는 스크램블러 알고리즘은 64비트를 처리할 수 있는 CPU를 사용한다면 32비트 스크램블러보다 40% 이상 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. WAVE(Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment) is new concepts and Vehicles communications technology using for ITS(Intelligent Transportation Systems) service by IEEE standard 802.11p. Also it increases the efficiency and safety of the traffic on the road. However, the efficiency of Scrambler bit computational algorithms of OFDM modulation in WAVE systems will fall as it is not able to process in parallel in terms of hardware and software. This paper proposes an algorithm to configure 64-bits matrix table in scambler bit computation as well as an algorithm to compute 64-bits matrix table and input data in parallel. The proposed algorithm on this thesis is executed using 64-bits matrix table. In the result, the processing speed for 1 and 1000 times is improved about 40.08% ~ 40.27% and processing rate per sec is performed more than 468.35 compared to bit operation scramble. And processing speed for 1 and 1000 times is improved about 7.53% ~ 7.84% and processing rate per sec is performed more than 91.44 compared to 32-bits operation scramble. Therefore, if the 64 bit-CPU is used for 64-bits executable scramble algorithm, it is improved more than 40% compare to 32-bits scrambler.

교차로에서의 안전 좌회전을 위한 차량간 통신 기반 알고리즘 설계 및 구현

차량 통신 프로토콜은 IEEE 802.11 WG과 P1609에서 진행하고 있는 WAVE(Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments)가 대표적이며, 보안 등을 제외한 MAC과 PHY에 대한 부분은 표준으로 제정되었다. 이러한 차량통신을 이용하여 운전자들의 안전과 전체 교통 흐름의 원활한 통제를 위해 국내외에서 많은 프로젝트가 진행되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 교차로에서 좌회전 시도 시에 위험 상황이 예상되면 운전자에게 알려주기 위한 차량간 통신 기반 안전서비스 알고리즘을 설계하였고, 이를 실제 구현하였다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 자차와 반대편에서의 접근차량에 대한 모델을 구성하고 충돌 위험이 있을 경우 운전자에게 HMI(Human Machine Interface)를 통해 경고를 주게 된다. 본 안전 서비스의 성능 테스트를 위해 테스트 차량을 이용하여 알고리즘을 시스템에 탑재하였으며, 테스트 케이스를 구성하여 성능 시험장에서 검증하였다. 테스트 결과로써, 우수한 성능을 나타냈으며, 앞으로 차량 통신 인프라가 설치된다면 V2I(Vehicle to Infrastructure) 통신을 이용하여 본 알고리즘을 보다 정밀하게 보완해야 할 것이다. WAVE(Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) is a representative V2V communication protocol and its standards of MAC and PHY parts except for security were published. In order to control traffic flow and ensure driver's safety using V2V communication, various projects are conducting. In particular, safety application has been researched. Therefore, in this paper, we designed the safety application algorithm, which informs a driver of the dangerous status when driver tries to turn left in an intersection and we also implemented the algorithm. Proposed algorithm configures a model for a host vehicle and a vehicle coming in opposite lane and in case that there is collision hazard it provides warning message to driver by using HMI. In order to evaluate the proposed algorithm's performance, we configured the test bed using test vehicles and we tested the algorithm on proving ground with the composed test scenarios. As test results, our system showed excellent performance. If the infrastructures for V2I communications are constructed, we will optimize our system more precisely and stably.

Collision Control of Periodic Safety Messages With Strict Messaging Frequency Requirements

For safety messages in a vehicular networking environment, strict messaging frequency requirements exist. For instance, six out of eight cooperative vehicular safety applications, as chosen by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership, require a minimum of 10 Hz, whereas the precrash sensing application requires an even higher frequency of 50 Hz, for messages that convey the positions of vehicles. Currently, the collisions of periodic safety message broadcasts for the IEEE Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) system are left to the IEEE 802.11p medium access control (MAC) to resolve. With small contention window sizes stipulated in the 802.11p amendment, however, the MAC offers only limited relief to the collision problem, particularly toward the beginning of the control channel (CCH) interval. In this paper, we show that application-level control of the message transmission phase is desirable, when the frequency adaptation is not allowed due to the application requirement. We demonstrate through simulation and analysis that the proposed technique achieves up to 50% higher message reception probability compared with that relying only on the 802.11p MAC. The proposed method works in the safety applications themselves; therefore, the existing standards need not be modified.

Performance Analysis of WAVE Control Channels for Public Safety Services in VANETs

 Abstract—Vehicular Ad hoc network (VANET) is researched for public safety of vehicles. Safety applications exchange the safety messages among I2V (Infrastructure to Vehicle) and V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle) in VANETs. As several safety applications are running and generating periodic messages on a vehicle, they consume a sizable resources on communication channel. Several organizations identify the high-priority safety applications and recommend safety message generating patterns. These safety messages are carried by WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment) and 802.11p standards. We analyze the theoretical maximum vehicle number when the high-priority safety applications are running on vehicles on highly congested communication channel condition. The analysis shows that a few dozen of vehicles can communicate with each other even without any collision on the communication channel. It means that the transmission mechanism of safety messages must be improved to reduce the generated date rate and EDCA mechanism should be improved without changing 802.11p standard. We propose two simple mechanisms. One is used to reduce the transmission data rate and the other for EDCA improvement. Even with these improvements, one hundred vehicles can be accommodated on the 10MHz control channel allocated by US FCC.

차량통신시스템에서의 멀티홉 전송 방법

Abstract Vehicular communication is one of main convergence technologies which combines information and communication technology (ICT) with vehicle and road industries. In general, vehicular communication adopts IEEE 802.11p standard which is commonly referred as wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE). In this paper, we investigate a multi-hop communication scheme for IEEE 802.11p based communication systems which support both vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. First, we briefly overview the performance of IEEE 802.11p based communication systems. Then, a multi-hop communication scheme is introduced for both broadcast and unicast. The performance of proposed scheme is presented via experimental measurements. Key Words : Vehicular communication, WAVE, multi-hop communication, broadcast, unicast Ⅰ. Introduction Vehicular communications have been considered as one of the attractive research areas by applying communication technologies to the road. To apply vehicular communication technologies with one common type, the standards for vehicular communications have been developed in several institutions such as IEEE, ETSI and ISO. Among them IEEE 802.11p and IEEE 1609.X, which are commonly referred as wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE), are widely accepted as a common standard for vehicular communications. IEEE 802.11p specifies MAC/PHY layer standard in 5.9GHz frequency band by modifying IEEE 802.11 a/b/g

WAVE 시스템에서 스크램블러의 속도 향상을 위한 연구

WAVE(Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment) 시스템에서 스크램블러의 비트 연산은 하드웨어나 소프트웨어 측면에서 병렬 처리가 불가능하여 효율성이 떨어지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 행렬 테이블에서 시작 위치를 찾는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 스크램블러의 비트 연산 알고리즘과 행렬 테이블 구성 알고리즘, 행렬 테이블에서 시작 위치를 찾는 알고리즘을 8비트, 16비트, 32비트 단위로 처리하여 성능을 비교 분석한 결과 초당 처리 횟수는 8비트는 2917.8회, 16비트는 5432.1회, 32비트는 10277.8회 더 수행할 수 있었다. 따라서 행렬 테이블에서 시작 위치를 찾는 알고리즘이 WAVE 시스템에서 스크램블러의 속도를 향상시키고, 지능형 교통 체계(ITS)에서 노변장치와 차량(V2I) 또는 차량 사이의 통신(V2V)으로 다양한 정보 수집의 수신 속도와 정밀도를 향상시킬 수 있다. Bit operation of scrambler in the WAVE System become less efficient because parallel processing is impossible in terms of hardware and software. In this paper, we propose algorism to find the starting position of the matrix table. Also, when bit operation algorithm of scrambler and algorithms for matrix table, algorithm used to find starting position of the matrix table were compared with the performance as 8 bit, 16bit, 32 bit processing units. As a result, the number of processing times per second could be done 2917.8 times more in an 8-bit, 5432.1 times in a 16-bit, 10277.8 times in a 32 bit. Therefore, algorithm to find the starting position of the matrix table improves the speed of the scrambler in the WAVE and the receiving speed of a variety of information gathering and precision over the Vehicle to Infra or Vehicle to Vehicle in the Intelligent Transport Systems.

원형 동축 선로에서 광대역 매칭 커넥터의 특성 연구

In this paper, smoothing plane connector have been proposed as the vehicle connector for the wireless access in vehicular environments (5.925GHz) communication. This smoothing plane connector is designed by considering the properties of critical parameter like smoothing distance of start to end point of contact area. The design simulation and results can be used to determine the most suitable smoothing plane wire dimensions for vehicle communication connector. The optimized WAVE connector inserted the smoothing plane wire has insertion loss less than-0.17dB at 5.925GHz. It provides 20% of insertion loss with good performance. Therefore, the simulated results can be effectively used for optimum design of high frequency connector for vehicle communication.