QCH-MAC: A qos-aware centralized hybrid MAC protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks

Narjes Boulila, Mohamed Hadded, Anis Laouiti, Leila Azouz Saidane

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Abstract

The standard IEEE 802.11p was proposed to support the rapid exchange of data between the vehicles themselves and between the vehicles and the RSU (Road Side Unit). Besides, the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET), presented in the literature, have many weaknesses in supporting real time traffic. Indeed, some of them combine the advantage of TDMA with CSMA/CA to organize the channel access, therefore collisions may occur when safety messages are transmitted. In the context of hard real time, meeting deadlines requires prior knowledge of the possible communications between vehicles. Thus, we introduce an extension of the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) defined in IEEE 802.11p combined with TDMA, called Qos-aware Centralized Hybrid MAC protocol (QCHMAC). To evaluate our proposed protocol, we implemented it in ns-3 and we used the simulator SUMO to generate vehicular mobility traces. The simulation results reveal that QCH-MAC significantly outperforms pure TDMA in terms of transmission delay, packet loss rate and network throughput.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2018
EditorsLeonard Barolli, Tomoya Enokido, Marek R. Ogiela, Lidia Ogiela, Nadeem Javaid, Makoto Takizawa
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages55-62
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781538621943
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Aug 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2018 - Krakow, Poland
Duration: 16 May 201818 May 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA
Volume2018-May
ISSN (Print)1550-445X

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2018
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKrakow
Period16/05/1818/05/18

Keywords

  • Ad hoc Network
  • CSMA/CA
  • EDCA
  • Hybrid MAC
  • IEEE 802.11p
  • TDMA
  • VANET

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