Title
Degradation of communication range in VANETs caused by interference 2.0 - real-world experiment
Abstract
High channel load in vehicle-to-vehicle communication leads to a degradation of the vehicles' communication range, due to interference and hence packet loss at larger distances. Packet loss results from two or more concurrent transmissions, colliding at receivers located inbetween, which is also known as the hidden station problem. In previous works, our simulation study has shown that this packet loss leads to a degradation of 90% of the communication range. In this paper, we confirm the simulation results by real-world measurements. We present a methodology for transferring the simulation scenario to a real-world measurement scenario, able to evaluate the problem of hidden stations. With three radios applying the IEEE 802.11p standard, we measure the degradation of the communication range under interference. In the measurement, we find a degradation of 50 to 70%. On the one hand, there are less collisions due to only one hidden station. On the other hand, we identify that the receiving vehicle as a shadowing object itself is an additional origin for hiding the other station which slightly increases the number of collisions even at close distances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-19786-4_16
Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains
Keywords
Field
DocType
simulation study,hidden station problem,hidden station,communication range,packet loss result,simulation result,real-world measurement,packet loss,vehicle-to-vehicle communication,simulation scenario,real-world experiment
Communication channel,Packet loss,Degradation (geology),Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Interference (wave propagation),Engineering,Vehicular ad hoc network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.86
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert K. Schmidt1555.37
Bernhard Kloiber2505.44
Florian Schüttler370.86
Thomas Strang427237.76