Connectivity is a fundamental requirement for Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) to secure reliable information dissemination. Connectivity is not guaranteed in the case of traffic sparsity and low market penetration of networked vehicles. Therefore, it is essential to examine the connectivity condition before deploying VANETs. The probabilistic distribution of inter-vehicle spacing plays a crucial role in the study of connectivity. It is quite often in previous studies to assume a priori distribution. This paper has studied this issue analytically and proved a general result as follows: Poisson vehicle flow of volume λ enters a road stretch over the period [0, ∞), with the speed of each vehicle sampled from a common distribution of PDF fv(v), then in the steady state the number of vehicles within any road section [x1, x2] at any time instant t > 0 is Poisson distributed with the parameter λ(x2 − x1) ∫0 1/v fv(v) dv. This theoretical result is also confirmed with our simulation studies.


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    Title :

    Spatial random modeling of vehicular traffic in VANETs


    Contributors:
    Liu, Yongyang (author) / Guo, Jingqiu (author) / Wang, Yibing (author)


    Publication date :

    2017-10-01


    Size :

    319725 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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