Advanced Activity-Aware Multi-Channel Operations1609.4 in VANETs for Vehicular Clouds

The Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology has been used in Vehicular communication to enable short-lived safety and non-safety applications based on Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communications over the Control Channel (CCH) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications over the Service Channels (SCHs) in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). With the under-utilized advanced computation, communication and storage resources in On-Board Units (OBUs) of modern vehicles, Vehicular Clouds (VCs) are used to manage coalitions of affordable resources in Vehicles in order to host infotainment applications used by other vehicles on the move. In this paper, we introduce an Advanced Activity-Aware (AAA) scheme for Multi-Channel Operations based on 1609.4 in MAC Protocol in Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE). The AAA aims at dynamically achieving an optimal setup of Control Channel Interval (CCHI) and Service Channel Interval (SCHI) by reducing the inactivity interval while maintaining a default Synchronization Interval (SI) between all vehicles. We evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme through real-time simulation of vehicular cloud load and VANET communications using NS3. The simulation results indicate that our proposed scheme increases significantly the throughput and reduces the average delay of uploaded packets of non-safety applications from the VC to the Road Side Unit (RSU) while maintaining a V2V communication for safety similar to that of the 1609.4 standard.

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