Design of Intersection Switches for the Vehicular Network

This paper proposes an efficient message switch scheme on the vehicular telematics network, especially for the intersection area where routing decision may be complex due to severe trafic concentration. Each switch node opens an external interface to exchange messages with vehicles proceeding to the intersection from the pre-assigned branch as well as switches the received messages via the internal interfaces, accessing two shared channels according to slot-based MAC. Within each synchronized slot, channel probing and switching can efficiently deal with channel errors. The simulation result shows that the proposed scheme improves the delivery ratio by up to 13 % for the channel error rate range as well as up to 8.1 % for the given network load distribution.