Investigating Various Interval Assignments in IEEE 1609.4 Multichannel MAC Protocol

In this paper, first, we briefly present two kinds of interval assignments that used in IEEE 1609.4 multichannel MAC protocol. Then, we propose a new kind of interval assignment and investigate the performance of three different approaches in term of throughput, delay and packet delivery ratio. The main purpose of this work is to investigate how the different interval assignments affect the performance of the protocol and the investigations were performed based on the operation of the IEEE 1609.4 multichannel MAC protocol.