8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A Novel Location-Based Channel Congestion Control Scheme in V2I Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694576,
        author={Zhiwei Zeng and Hui Zhao and Xuemei Xin and Kan Zheng},
        title={A Novel Location-Based Channel Congestion Control Scheme in V2I Networks},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2013},
        month={11},
        keywords={v2i networks congestion control location collision flooding ieee 80211p/1609},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694576}
    }
    
  • Zhiwei Zeng
    Hui Zhao
    Xuemei Xin
    Kan Zheng
    Year: 2013
    A Novel Location-Based Channel Congestion Control Scheme in V2I Networks
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694576
Zhiwei Zeng1,*, Hui Zhao1, Xuemei Xin1, Kan Zheng1
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications
*Contact email: zwzengkame@bupt.edu.cn

Abstract

IEEE has adopted 802.11p/1609 as the standards for vehicular communications. The CSMA/CA based MAC in 802.11p leads to great performance degradation in dense networks, and the start-of-interval flooding collisions caused by the periodic channel switch in 1609.4 makes this problem even more severe. In this paper, an adaptive location-based channel congestion control scheme for the V2I (Vehicle to Infrastructure) communication is proposed. This novel method divides the service channel (SCH) interval into exclusive access period (EAP) and contention access period (CAP). In EAP, a location-based TDMA/CSMA scheme is designed to alleviate potential collisions, which could adapt to various traffic loads. In CAP, the default EDCA is employed. Vehicles' remnant communication time in the network is considered to improve the overall system fairness. Simulation results reveal that the proposed scheme achieves significant collision reduction and system throughput improvement under saturated V2I networks compared with the IEEE 802.11p/1609.4 MAC scheme.