On the network connectivity of platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical systems

In the past few years, vehicular ad hoc networking (VANET) has attracted significant attention and many fundamental issues have been investigated, such as network connectivity, medium access control (MAC) mechanism, routing protocol, and quality of service (QoS). Nevertheless, most related work has been based on simplified assumptions on the underlying vehicle traffic dynamics, which has a tight interaction with VANET in practice. In this paper, the authors try to investigate VANET performance from the vehicular cyber-physical system (VCPS) perspective. Specifically, they consider VANET connectivity of platoon-based VCPSs where all vehicles drive in platoon-based patterns, which facilitate better traffic performance as well as information services. The authors first propose a novel architecture for platoon-based VCPSs, then derive the vehicle distribution under platoon-based driving patterns on a highway. Based on the results, they further investigate inter-platoon connectivity in a bi-directional highway scenario and evaluate the expected time of safety message delivery among platoons, taking into account the effects of system parameters, such as traffic flow, velocity, platoon size and transmission range. Extensive simulations are conducted which validate the accuracy of the analysis. This study will be helpful to understand the behavior of VCPSs, and will be helpful to improve vehicle platoon design and deployment.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2013.10.006
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X13002210
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/0968090X
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Jia, Dongyao
  • Lu, Kejie
  • Wang, Jianping
• Publication Date: 2014-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 215-230
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0968-090X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Connectivity; Data communications; Traffic platooning; Transmission; Vehicle to vehicle communications; Vehicular ad hoc networks
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01522021
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 15 2014 9:19AM