TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental analysis of broadcast reliability in dense vehicular networks
AU - Ramachandran, Kishore
AU - Gruteser, Marco
AU - Onishi, Ryokichi
AU - Hikita, Toshiro
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC)-based communications enable novel automotive safety applications such as an Extended Electronic Brake Light or Intersection Collision Avoidance. These applications require reliable wireless communications even in scenarios with very high vehicle density, where these networks are primarily interference-limited. Given the uncertainties associated with current simulation models, particularly their interference models, it is critical to experimentally validate network performance for such scenarios. Towards this goal, we present a systematic, large-scale experimental study of packet delivery rates in a dense environment of 802.11 transmitters. We show that even with 100 transmitters in communication range with a frame size of 128 bytes and a bit-rate of 6Mbps, (a) most receivers can decode over 1500 pps in a saturated network, which corresponds to a packet delivery rate of 45% and (b) the mean packet delivery rate, for 10 pps per node workload that emulates vehicular safety applications, is about 95%. These results demonstrate that a COTS 802.11 implementation can correctly decode many packets under collision due to physical layer capture and can serve as a reference scenario for validation of network simulators.
AB - Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC)-based communications enable novel automotive safety applications such as an Extended Electronic Brake Light or Intersection Collision Avoidance. These applications require reliable wireless communications even in scenarios with very high vehicle density, where these networks are primarily interference-limited. Given the uncertainties associated with current simulation models, particularly their interference models, it is critical to experimentally validate network performance for such scenarios. Towards this goal, we present a systematic, large-scale experimental study of packet delivery rates in a dense environment of 802.11 transmitters. We show that even with 100 transmitters in communication range with a frame size of 128 bytes and a bit-rate of 6Mbps, (a) most receivers can decode over 1500 pps in a saturated network, which corresponds to a packet delivery rate of 45% and (b) the mean packet delivery rate, for 10 pps per node workload that emulates vehicular safety applications, is about 95%. These results demonstrate that a COTS 802.11 implementation can correctly decode many packets under collision due to physical layer capture and can serve as a reference scenario for validation of network simulators.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.2007.439
DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.2007.439
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 1424402646
SN - 9781424402649
T3 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
SP - 2091
EP - 2095
BT - 2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2007-Fall
T2 - 2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2007-Fall
Y2 - 30 September 2007 through 3 October 2007
ER -