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Reliable Broadcast of Safety Messages in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

Broadcast communications is critically important in vehicular networks. Many safety applications need safety warning messages to be broadcast to all vehicles present in an area. In this thesis, we propose a novel repetition-based broadcast protocol based on ``optical orthogonal codes.'' Optical orthogonal codes are used because of their ability to reduce the possibility of collision. We present a detailed mathematical analysis for obtaining the probability of success and the average delay. Furthermore, we propose to use coding to increase network throughput, and ``adaptive elimination'' of potentially colliding transmissions to further increase reliability. We show, by analysis and simulations, that the proposed protocol outperforms existing repetition-based ones and provides reliable broadcast communications and can reliably deliver safety messages under load conditions deemed to be common in vehicular environments. We also show that the proposed protocol is able to provide different levels of quality of service.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/17176
Date24 February 2009
CreatorsHassanzadeh, Farzad
ContributorsValaee, Shahrokh
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format1026081 bytes, application/pdf

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