Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol for DSRC safety applications

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3882-3896

  Hassan, Md Imrul ^a   Vu, Hai L ^a   Sakurai, Taka ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dedicated short range communication (DSRC); medium access control (MAC); performance analysis; safety applications

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BUSY TONE; DEDICATED SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HIDDEN TERMINAL; IEEE 802.11 DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTIONS; IEEE 802.11 MAC PROTOCOLS; MAC LAYER; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MOVING VEHICLES; NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OUT-OF-BAND; PACKET ARRIVAL RATE; PACKET COLLISIONS; PACKET DELAY; PACKET DELIVERY RATIO; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; SAFETY APPLICATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; THRESHOLD LEVELS; UNSATURATED NETWORKS; VEHICLE DENSITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80054804178     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2162755     Document Type: Article

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