Fair Congestion Control in Vehicular Networks with Beaconing Rate Adaptation at Multiple Transmit Powers

Cooperative intervehicular applications rely on the exchange of broadcast single-hop status messages among vehicles, which are called beacons. The aggregated load on the wireless channel due to periodic beacons can prevent the transmission of other types of messages, which is called channel congestion due to beaconing activity. In this paper, the authors propose to let vehicles transmit with different transmit power levels, each with a particular beaconing rate. The selection of the rate is modeled as a network utility maximization (NUM) problem. The authors' goal is to maximize the number of beacons delivered at each transmit power according to a well-defined fairness notion while complying with the maximum allowed beaconing load on the channel. The algorithm parameters can be set per vehicle and dynamically changed, which provides enough flexibility to support multiple applications on top of the control scheme, whereas the NUM model provides a rigorous framework to design a broad family of simple and decentralized algorithms, with proved convergence guarantees to a fair allocation solution. Simulation results validate our approach and show that it provides fair rate allocations in realistic multihop and dynamic scenarios with packet losses.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2016.2540163
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00189545
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Egea-Lopez, Esteban
  • Pavon-Mariño, Pablo
• Publication Date: 2016-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 3888-3903
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 65
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Beacons; Data communications; Resource allocation; Vehicular ad hoc networks; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01602862
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 2016 4:16PM