Efficient CSMA/CA Packet Relay-Assisted Scheme with Payload Combining for ITS V2V Communication

CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) based relay-assisted V2V scheme is effective in compensating shadowing loss and hence improves performance of ITS V2V communications, especially for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) areas such as intersections. However, when the number of vehicle stations becomes large, packet congestion happens frequently at the relay station (RS). It causes interruption of packet relaying transmission and limits the improvement by the scheme. This paper proposes a packet payload combining relay (PCRL) scheme to alleviate the congestion issue at RS by compressing packet overheads of broadcast packets. With adaptive modulation and coding technique at RS, PCRL can further mitigate the packet interruption by reducing the air time of relayed packets. Time division grouping method is also applied to PCRL to mitigate the hidden terminal problem at intersections. Analyzed and simulated results show that the proposed schemes can effectively mitigate packet congestion issue and improve the reliability of the V2V communication.

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