Congestion Control for Vehicular Environments by Adjusting IEEE 802.11 Contention Window Size

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03889-6_30Medium access control protocols should manage the highly dynamic nature of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) and the variety of application requirements. Therefore, achieving a well-designed MAC protocol in VANETs is a challenging issue. The contention window is a critical element for handling medium access collisions in IEEE 802.11, and it highly affects the communications performance. This paper proposes a new contention window control scheme, called DBM-ACW, for VANET environments. Analysis and simulation results using OMNeT++ in urban scenarios show that DBM-ACW provides better overall performance compared with previous proposals, even with high network densities.This work was partially supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain, under Grant TIN2011-27543-C03-01Balador, A.; Tavares De Araujo Cesariny Calafate, CM.; Cano Escribá, JC.; Manzoni, P. (2013). Congestion Control for Vehicular Environments by Adjusting IEEE 802.11 Contention Window Size. En Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. Springer. 259-266. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03889-6_30S259266Booysen, M.J., Zeadally, S., van Rooyen, G.-J.: Survey of media access control protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks. IET Communications 5(11), 1619–1631 (2011)Kenney, J.: Standards and regulations. In: Hartenstein, H., Laberteaux, K.P. (eds.) VANET: Vehicular Applications and Inter-networking Technologies, ch. 10, pp. 365–428. Wiley (2010)Stanica, R., Chaput, E., Beylot, A.-L.: Enhancements of IEEE 802.11p Protocol for Access Control on a VANET Control Channel. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 5-9, pp. 1–5 (2011)Calafate, C.T., Fortino, G., Fritsch, S., Monteiro, J., Cano, J., Manzoni, P.: An efficient and robust content delivery solution for IEEE 802.11p vehicular environments. Journal of Network and Computer Applications 35(2), 753–762 (2012)Cali, F., Conti, M., Gregori, E.: Dynamic tuning of the IEEE 802.11 protocol to achieve a theoretical throughput limit. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 8(6), 785–799 (2000)Wu, H., Cheng, S., Peng, Y., Long, K., Ma, J.: IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF): analysis and enhancement. In: IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2002, vol. 1, pp. 605–609 (2002)Balador, A., Movaghar, A., Jabbehdari, S.: History based contention window control in ieee 802.11 mac protocol in error prone channel. Journal of Computer Science 6(2), 205–209 (2010)Chrysostomou, C., Djouvas, C., Lambrinos, L.: Applying adaptive QoS-aware medium access control in priority-based vehicular ad hoc networks. In: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), June 28-July 1, pp. 741–747 (2011)Jang, H.-C., Feng, W.-C.: Network Status Detection-Based Dynamic Adaptation of Contention Window in IEEE 802.11p. In: 2010 IEEE 71st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2010-Spring), May 16-19, pp. 1–5 (2010)http://www.omnetpp.org/http://inet.omnetpp.org/Behrisch, M., Bieker, L., Erdmann, J., Krajzewicz, D.: SUMO - Simulation of Urban MObility: An Overview. In: The Third International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, SIMUL 2011 (2011)Baguena, M., Tornell, S., Torres, A., Calafate, C.T., Cano, J.C., Manzoni, P.: VACaMobil: VANET Car Mobility Manager for OMNeT++. In: IEEE International Conference on Communications 2013 - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA 2013), Budapest, Hungary (June 2013)Baguena, M., Calafate, C.T., Cano, J., Manzoni, P.: Towards realistic vehicular network simulation models. In: 2012 IFIP Wireless Days (WD), November 21-23, pp. 1–3 (2012)http://www.openstreetmap.org

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This paper presents path loss model along with framework for probability distribution function for VANETs. Furthermore, we simulate three routing protocols Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV), Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and Dynamic MANET On-demand (DYMO) in NS-2 to evaluate and compare their performance using two Mac-layer Protocols 802.11 and 802.11p. A novel approach of this work is modifications in existing parameters to achieve high efficiency. After extensive simulations, we observe that DSDV out performs with 802.11p while DYMO gives best performance with 802.11.Comment: IEEE 8th International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA'13), Compiegne, Franc

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