• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4123-4144
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• 2016

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) utilize radio propagation models (RPMs) to predict path loss in vehicular environment. Modern urban vehicular environment contains road infrastructure units that include road tunnels, straight roads, curved roads flyovers and underpasses. Different RPMs were proposed in the past to predict path loss, but modern road infrastructure units especially flyovers and underpasses are neglected previously. Most of the existing RPMs are computationally complex and ignore some of the critical features such as impact of infrastructure units on the signal propagation and the effect of both static and moving radio obstacles on signal attenuation. Therefore, the existing RPMs are incapable of predicting path loss in flyovers and underpass accurately. This paper proposes an RPM to predict path loss for vehicular communication on flyovers and inside underpasses that considers both the static and moving radio obstacles while requiring only marginal overhead. The proposed RPM is validated based upon the field measurements in 5 GHz frequency band. A close agreement is found between the measured and predicted values of path loss.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1933-1954
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• 2013

Multiple wireless devices are being widely deployed in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) services on the road to establish end-to-end connection between vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) play an important role in supporting V2V and V2I communications (also called V2X communications) in a variety of urban environments with distinct topological characteristics. In fact, obstacles such as big buildings, moving vehicles, trees, advertisement boards, traffic lights, etc. may block the radio signals in V2X communications. Their impact has been neglected in VANET research. In this paper, we present a realistic and efficient radio propagation model to handle different sizes of static and moving obstacles for V2X communications. In the proposed model, buildings and large moving vehicles are modeled as static and moving obstacles, and taken into account their impact on the packet reception rate, Line-of-sight (LOS) obstruction, and received signal power. We use unsymmetrical city map which has many dead-end roads and open faces. Each dead-end road and open faces are joined to the nearest edge making a polygon to model realistic obstacles. The simulation results of proposed model demonstrates better performance compared to some existing models, that shows proposed model can reflect more realistic simulation environments.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권9호
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• pp.60-68
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• 2006

미리 설정된 연계성이 없는 차량들 사이에 무선통신을 이용하여 긴급정지, 차량사고, 장애물 출현 등의 차량안전과 관련이 있는 정보를 주고받을 수 있는 지능적 차량안전 시스템을 구성될 수 있다 대부분의 차량안전 통신 응용 시스템에서 차량안전 메시지는 브로드캐스트의 형태로 전파된다. 이러한 브로드캐스트 형 전파방법은 다중 홉 전송과 패킷 충돌 문제로 그 성능과 효율성 측면에서 많은 문제를 안고 있다. 본 논문에서는 교통사고 예방을 위한 차량안전메시지를 다중 홉 거리까지 효과적으로 전송하기 위해 우선순위 방식의 중계노드 선택방법을 제안하고 있다. 무선 전송반경에 포함된 여러 노드들 중에서 적정한 거리에 위치한 하나의 노드만 중계에 참여하도록 한다 따라서 중복 패킷의 수를 줄여 패킷 오버헤드를 낮추고 부가적으로 네트워크 성능의 향상도 얻고 있다. 제안된 방법의 성능은 네트워크 시뮬레이션을 통하여 여타의 방법에 비해 우수한 것으로 판명되었다.