Multi-hop propagation of situational information is a promising technique for improving beaconing performance and increasing the degree of situational awareness onboard vehicles. However, limitation on beacon size prescribed by standardization bodies implies that only information about 3–4 surrounding vehicles can be piggybacked in a beacon packet. In most traffic situations, the number of vehicles within transmission range is much larger than 3–4, implying that multi-hop forwarding strategies must be devised to select which neighboring vehicle's information to include in a transmitted beacon. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of different multi-hop forwarding strategies in delivering fresh situational information to surrounding vehicles. Effectiveness is estimated in terms of both average information age and probability of experiencing a situational-awareness blackout of at least 1 sec. Both metrics are estimated as a function of the hop distance from the transmitting vehicle. The investigation is based on extensive simulations whose multi-hop communication performance is corroborated by real-world measurements. The results show that network-coding based strategies substantially improve forwarding performance as compared to a randomized strategy, reducing the average information age of up to 60%, the blackout probability of two orders of magnitude, and providing a performance similar to that of an idealized strategy in which complete situational information is included in the beacon.


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    Title :

    Evaluating multi-hop beaconing forwarding strategies for IEEE 802.11p vehicular networks


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    Publication date :

    2013-12-01


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    397060 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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