1. Cooperative protocols for wireless vehicular communication
Good afternoon ladies and gentelmen
My name is Fatma Hrizi, I am a phd student at EURECOM and I’m working with Jerome Haerri and Christian bonnet
My talk is concerned with cooperation in wireless vehicular networks and I am going to talk particularly about challenges and visions in this field.
Fatma Hrizi, Jerome Haerri
and Christian Bonnet
EURECOM, Mobile communications department

2. Vehicular networks: The Challenges
Applications
Safety
Efficiency
Entertainment, Internet access
Key concept
Provide appropriate information to the driver/vehicle
Large amount of data to exchange
Local scope information: Awareness (GPS data)
Global scope information: Emergency, traffic and road information…
The emergence of wireless vehicular networks is related to the development of a new set of intelligent traffic applications that could enhance traffic safety and efficiency.
Basically, there are three classes of applications, first the traffic safety applications such as the post crash warning applications where a vehicle detecting an accident has to send the information to others.
The second one is traffic efficiency applications like traffic congestion detection and finally entertainment applications. We are focusing mainly on the first and vital category : safety applications.
The key concept of/behind such applications is to provide relevant information to the driver.
Moreover, due to the diversity of applications, a large amount of data is expected to be exchanged among vehicles. It consists of local scope information related to awareness provided by GPS receiver
And secondly global information scope such as emergency, traffic and road information
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3. Cooperation in vehicular networks (1/2)
Safety applications requirements
Short delay and high reliability
Awareness:
Broadcast – need to reach all neighboring nodes
Periodic – need to update position information
Shared medium limitation
Congestion at medium access
Collision at reception
Channel capacity
exceeded!
On the other hand, safety applications require very short delay and high reliability in information reception and to fit these requirements periodic broadcast communication has to be used.
For example for the local scope information: the awareness, we need that all one-hop neighbors receive an updated position information.
However, the problem here is that we do have only one shared medium which may result in a severe channel congestion problem when the channel capacity is exceeded. Moreover there is still an issue with the collisions at reception that increase with the increase of number of vehicles and could be present even when the channel capacity is not exceeded.
So we do need to regulate the channel load in order to alleviate the problem of congestion at medium access which is the main focus in this presentation.
Load on channel
Need to regulate the channel load
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4. Cooperation in vehicular networks (2/2)
Does not impact channel load at A
Best relay to be selected A B A C B
If B does not retransmit => reduce channel load at A
Reduce channel load at B
No need for B retransmission
Congestion control policy of a node benefits others
Need for cooperative and common congestion control policy
One hop transmission
Transmission rate control
Transmission power control
Multi-hop transmission
Select best relay
So to regulate the channel load, a vehicle can for example reduce his transmission rate of periodic message (e.g. awareness). For example, when all vehicles transmit at the same rate all of them utilize the maximum channel capacity. However, if vehicle A reduce his rate, it does not impact his channel load but the others’ so here we notice the decrease of channel load at B.
Another example is related to the emergency information transmission, in this scenario, A will be selected as the best relay to forward the information, If B sends as well he will overload the channel at A. On the other hand, C is covered by A and does not need B transmission.
So, we observe that a vehicle cannot benefit from its own congestion control policy but from that of its neighbors.
Therefore, we do need an efficient and common cooperative congestion control policy.
For one-hop transmission, mainly there are the transmission rate and power control and in this presentation we focus in the transmission rate control scheme
And for multi-hop the main issue concerns the selection of best relay.
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5. EURECOM, Mobile communications department
Talk outline
Cooperative congestion control strategies
Multi-hop communication
Bi-Zone Broadcast protocol (BZB)
One-hop communication
Transmission rate control
Conclusion and perspectives
I propose to present our research activities related cooperative congestion control strategies as follows
First, an overview of a proposed multihop broadcast protocol: Bi-zone broadcast protocol, then an analysis of our proposed transmission rate control policy.
Finally, we conclusion and perspectives
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6. Multi-hop communication: BZB
Disseminate broadcast information reliably and in brief delay
Distance-based contention scheme
Select the best relay according to the distance: the furthest
Minimize the waiting time of distant node
Tx Range
Dth
Dth: Distance threshold C C A
Right, to start BZB is a broadcast protocol aiming at ensuring reliability and short delay in data reception.
It consists in a distance-based contention scheme. So, the main idea behind distance-based approaches is to select the relay according to the distance from the source. Moreover/Furthermore, in order to decrease the delay, BzB manages to minimize the waiting time of distant node. By fixing a distance threshold beyond it vehicles have more priority to forward the packet quickly/in short delay.
We have been investigating also the impact of RSU in the message dissemination and how to give more priority to
RSUs in forwarding since they are equipped with high antennas ensuring more coverage and are wired connected as well. B D D B t
A sends
B sends
C cancels
D cancels
Impact of RSU
in dissemination
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7. BZB: Performance Evaluation
Here I am going to present some simulation results of BzB:
We compared BzB to a simple distance-based strategy where the waiting time is inversely proportional to the distance from the source.
We have measured the Average information reception delay regarding the distance from the source and varying the distance threshold.
We have SDP in green curves and other color regards BZB with different dth values. The first plot considers sparse network and the second dense network.
As you can see, for close distances (lower than 100m) both protocols show the same results since all nodes in this distance can receive the message from the originator node directly.
For further distances, BZB outperforms SDP in terms of delay for both dense and sparse networks.
SDP: Simple distance based protocol
50 nodes
500 nodes
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8. One-hop communication: Transmission rate control
Approach:
Tune rate to avoid congestion
Rely on position information prediction
Transmit only when
Mobility not predictable: Sudden mobility change
Topology not predictable: Announce its presence
Intersection collision warning
Transmission
I moved from predicted position!
Now, we move to the second part, I am going to present ongoing research topic related to the transmission rate control in one-hop transmission.
The main aim is to avoid congestion by tuning the transmission rate and by limiting the one-hop message’s channel capacity to leave more bandwidth to other type of messages.
Therefore, we propose to consider position data prediction and to transmit only when it is needed by other neighbors.
When the mobility is not predictable when a sudden mobility change occur. For example, the real position of this vehicle deviates from the predicted one and it can not be predicted by others. So he has to send his position to update the information of his neighbors.
Another possibility of transmission is when the topology is not predictable and particularly when the applications require it. For instance, in intersection collision warning application a vehicle may need to announce its presence to new neighbors so it has to send the packet even though its position can be predicted.
A part from that, to ensure a high minimum level of accuracy, we have fixed a maximum transmission period in which a vehicle should transmit anyway.
Predicted
position
Real
position
Transmission!
Transmission
Application requirement!
Tmax: Maximum Tx period t
Tmax
Tmax
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9. Transmission rate control: Architecture
GPS data
V2X data
Map data
Decision
Mobility Prediction system
Cooperative
Decision maker
Predicted data
Real Position data
Error
Transmit position?
Application
Requirements
Network
density
Kalman Filter
Neural Network
Genetic algorithm
Particle Filter
Kalman Filter
Simplistic assumptions:
linear problem with Guassian noise
Neural Network
Learning phase
Genetic algorithm
Processing time
No guarantee for convergence
Particle Filter
Degeneracy problem
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10. Conclusion and perspectives
So far..
Congestion-aware approach for multi-hop and one-hop communications
BZB protocol
Transmission rate control
Some issues have not yet been fully investigated
Mobility prediction schemes
Channel-aware mechanisms for congestion control strategies
Cooperation between multiple applications and protocols
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11. Conclusion and perspectives
Multiple applications
Satisfy different applications
requirements
Multiple protocols
Consider the various congestion control
policies and resources limitation
(1)
Intersection collision warning (ICW)!
Which decision I take?
(2)
Lane change warning (LCW)!
Applications
ICW
LCW …
Appn
Facilities
Networking & Transport
CP1
CP2
CPn
Access Technologies
Which congestion control scheme I use?
ICW: Intersection collision warning
LCW: Lane change warning
CP: Congestion control policy
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12. Thank you for your attention
Contact : Fatma Hrizi
Mobile Communications Department
EURECOM
2229 Route des Crêtes - BP 193
F Sophia Antipolis Cedex
FRANCE
Tel:
Fax:
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13. Multi-hop communication: BZB
V2V dissemination
Contention-based scheme
Minimise the waiting time of distant node
Tx Range
Dth
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14. Multi-hop communication: I-BZB
V2V/V2I dissemination: Impact of infrastructure in message dissemination
RSUs are equipped with high antennas ensuring more coverage and are wiredly connected to the TOC
More priority to RSU considering density
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