Evaluating the Impact of Transmission Power on Selecting Tall Vehicles as Best Next Communication Hop

Qiao, Yu and Klein Wolterink, Wouter and Karagiannis, Georgios and Heijenk, Geert (2012) Evaluating the Impact of Transmission Power on Selecting Tall Vehicles as Best Next Communication Hop. In: Joint ERCIM eMobility and MobiSense Workshop 2012, 8 June 2012, Santorini, Greece.

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Abstract:	The relatively low height of antennas on communicating vehicles in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) makes one hop and as well multi-hop Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication susceptible to obstruction by other vehicles on the road. When the transmitter or receiver (or both) is a Tall vehi- cle, (i.e., truck), the V2V communication suffer less from these obstructions. The transmission power control is an important feature in the design of (multi- hop) VANET communication algorithms. However, the benefits of choosing a Tall vehicle when transmission power is varied are not yet extensively re- searched. Therefore, the main contribution of this paper is to evaluate the im- pact of transmission power control on the improved V2V communication capa- bilities of tall vehicles. Based on simulations, it is shown that significant bene- fits are observed when a Tall vehicle is selected rather than a Short vehicle as a next V2V communication hop to relay packets. Moreover, the simulation exper- iments show that as the transmission power is increasing, the rate of Tall vehi- cles that are selected as best next V2V communication hop is significantly growing.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/80855
Official URL:	http://wiki.ercim.eu/wg/eMobility/images/d/d1/ERCIM-WS2012-Proceedings-6.pdf
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