TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental evaluation of safety beacons dissemination in VANETs
AU - Shakeel, Shaima M.
AU - Ould-Khaoua, M.
AU - Rehman, Osama M.Hussain
AU - Al Maashri, A.
AU - Bourdoucen, Hadj
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is based upon research work supported by The Research Council (TRC) Oman, under Grant No: ORG/ICT/12/002, (www.trc.gov.om). This research has used resources of the Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) Lab, under the Communication & Information Research Center (CIRC) at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) - Oman, (www.squ.edu.om/circ/). The authors would like to acknowledge the Information Technology Authority (ITA) - Oman, (www.ita.gov.om), for the support in establishing the FOSS lab at SQU.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Efficient beacon delivery and accurate GPS position acquisition are key factors in designing robust safety applications in VANETs. Consequently, minimum delivery delays for beacons and accurate vehicle positional information are crucial parameters to avoid any upcoming emergencies on the road such as vehicle collisions or other hazardous situation. This paper studies the accuracy level of GPS acquired positional information and evaluates the effects of beacon transmission frequency and beacon size on beacon delivery delays by performing experimental field tests on four vehicles. Our experimental results indicate that the GPS acquired position may vary from the actual position of the vehicle, and that the packet size and broadcasting frequency are key factors in achieving high performance for safety applications in VANETs.
AB - Efficient beacon delivery and accurate GPS position acquisition are key factors in designing robust safety applications in VANETs. Consequently, minimum delivery delays for beacons and accurate vehicle positional information are crucial parameters to avoid any upcoming emergencies on the road such as vehicle collisions or other hazardous situation. This paper studies the accuracy level of GPS acquired positional information and evaluates the effects of beacon transmission frequency and beacon size on beacon delivery delays by performing experimental field tests on four vehicles. Our experimental results indicate that the GPS acquired position may vary from the actual position of the vehicle, and that the packet size and broadcasting frequency are key factors in achieving high performance for safety applications in VANETs.
KW - Experimental measurements, delay, beacons
KW - Road-safety application
KW - Vehicle-to-vehicle communication
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.07.262
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.07.262
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84939141085
VL - 56
SP - 618
EP - 623
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
SN - 1877-0509
IS - 1
T2 - 29th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers, EUROSENSORS 2015; Freiburg; Germany; 6 September 2015 through 9 September 2015.
Y2 - 6 September 2015 through 9 September 2015
ER -