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A topology-oblivious routing protocol for NDN-VANETs
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are characterized by intermittent
connectivity, which leads to failures of end-to-end paths between nodes. Named
Data Networking (NDN) is a network paradigm that deals with such problems,
since information is forwarded based on content and not on the location of the
hosts. In this work, we propose an enhanced routing protocol of our previous
topology-oblivious Multihop, Multipath, and Multichannel NDN for VANETs
(MMM-VNDN) routing strategy that exploits several paths to achieve more
efficient content retrieval. Our new enhanced protocol, i mproved MMM-VNDN
(iMMM-VNDN), creates paths between a requester node and a provider by
broadcasting Interest messages. When a provider responds with a Data message to
a broadcast Interest message, we create unicast routes between nodes, by using
the MAC address(es) as the distinct address(es) of each node. iMMM-VNDN
extracts and thus creates routes based on the MAC addresses from the strategy
layer of an NDN node. Simulation results show that our routing strategy
performs better than other state of the art strategies in terms of Interest
Satisfaction Rate, while keeping the latency and jitter of messages low
Sub-6GHz Assisted MAC for Millimeter Wave Vehicular Communications
Sub-6GHz vehicular communications (using DSRC, ITS-G5 or C-V2X) have been
developed to support active safety applications. Future connected and automated
driving applications can require larger bandwidth and higher data rates than
currently supported by sub-6GHz V2X technologies. This has triggered the
interest in developing mmWave vehicular communications. However, solutions are
necessary to solve the challenges resulting from the use of high-frequency
bands and the high mobility of vehicles. This paper contributes to this active
research area by proposing a sub-6GHz assisted mmWave MAC that decouples the
mmWave data and control planes. The proposal offloads mmWave MAC control
functions (beam alignment, neighbor identification and scheduling) to a
sub-6GHz V2X technology, and reserves the mmWave channel for the data plane.
This approach improves the operation of the MAC as the control functions
benefit from the longer range, and the broadcast and omnidirectional
transmissions of sub-6GHz V2X technologies. This simulation study demonstrates
that the proposed sub-6GHz assisted mmWave MAC reduces the control overhead and
delay, and increases the spatial sharing compared to a mmWave-only
configuration (IEEE 802.11ad tailored to vehicular networks). The proposed MAC
is here evaluated for V2V communications using 802.11p for the control plane
and 802.11ad for the data plane. However, the proposal is not restricted to
these technologies, and can be adapted to other technologies such as C-V2X and
5G NR.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Not All Wireless Sensor Networks Are Created Equal: A Comparative Study On Tunnels
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are envisioned for a number of application scenarios. Nevertheless, the few in-the-field experiences typically focus on the features of a specific system, and rarely report about the characteristics of the target environment, especially w.r.t. the behavior and performance of low-power wireless communication. The TRITon project, funded by our local administration, aims to improve safety and reduce maintenance costs of road tunnels, using a WSN-based control infrastructure. The access to real tunnels within TRITon gives us the opportunity to experimentally assess the peculiarities of this environment, hitherto not investigated in the WSN field. We report about three deployments: i) an operational road tunnel, enabling us to assess the impact of vehicular traffic; ii) a non-operational tunnel, providing insights into analogous scenarios (e.g., underground mines) without vehicles; iii) a vineyard, serving as a baseline representative of the existing literature. Our setup, replicated in each deployment, uses mainstream WSN hardware, and popular MAC and routing protocols. We analyze and compare the deployments w.r.t. reliability, stability, and asymmetry of links, the accuracy of link quality estimators, and the impact of these aspects on MAC and routing layers. Our analysis shows that a number of criteria commonly used in the design of WSN protocols do not hold in tunnels. Therefore, our results are useful for designing networking solutions operating efficiently in similar environments
A Simple and Robust Dissemination Protocol for VANETs
Several promising applications for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) exist. For most of these applications, the communication among vehicles is envisioned to be based on the broadcasting of messages. This is due to the inherent highly mobile environment and importance of these messages to vehicles nearby. To deal with broadcast communication, dissemination protocols must be defined in such a way as to (i) prevent the so-called broadcast storm problem in dense networks and (ii) deal with disconnected networks in sparse topologies. In this paper, we present a Simple and Robust Dissemination (SRD) protocol that deals with these requirements in both sparse and dense networks. Its novelty lies in its simplicity and robustness. Simplicity is achieved by considering only two states (cluster tail and non- tail) for a vehicle. Robustness is achieved by assigning message delivery responsibility to multiple vehicles in sparse networks. Our simulation results show that SRD achieves high delivery ratio and low end-to-end delay under diverse traffic conditions
ISMA-DS/CDMA MAC protocol for mobile packet radio networks
In this paper an ISMA-DS/CDMA MAC protocol for a packet transmission network is presented. The main feature of this protocol is its ability to retain the inherent flexibility of random access protocols while at the same time reducing to some extent the randomness in the access in order to increase the system capacity. In this framework, the protocol is adapted to a frame structure similar to that specified in the UTRA ETSI proposal for third generation mobile communication systems. Additionally, some adaptive mechanisms are proposed that improve protocol performance by means of varying the transmission bit rate according to the channel load that is broadcast by the base station. As a result, an adaptive bit rate algorithm is presented that reaches a throughput value close to the optimumPeer ReviewedPostprint (published version
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