Journal on Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 95-105.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2016097

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Application oriented cross-layer multi-channel MAC protocol for VANET

Cai-xia SONG1,2,Guo-zhen TAN1(),Nan DING1,Jun-ling BU3,Fu-xin ZHANG1,Ming-jian LIU1   

  1. 1 College of Computer Science and Technology,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,China
    2 College of Science and Information,Qingdao Agricultural University,Qingdao 266109
    3 Wusong Maritime Safety Administration,Shanghai200940,China
  • Online:2016-05-25 Published:2016-06-01
  • Supported by:
    The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program);The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Abstract:

An application oriented cross-layer multi-channel(AOCM)MAC protocol was proposed for VANET.The AOCM protocol could derive the optimal control channel(CCH)interval to ensure the timely and reliable transmission of safety messages on the CCH,based on real-time statistics and prediction for different types of sages coming from upper application layer.In the service channels(SCH),the proposed protocol relies on a reservation mechanism for con-tention-free transmission,so as to improve the throughput of SCH.The proposed protocol was suitable for both saturation and unsaturation conditions,and has low computational complexity and high scalability.Extensive simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the AOCM protocol compared with other existing protocols.

Key words: vehicular ad-hoc network, multi-channel MAC, variable control channel interval, network traffic statistics, cross-layer

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