Date of Award

12-2008

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Dr. Ala AI-Fuqaha

Second Advisor

Dr. Dionysios Kountanis

Third Advisor

Dr. Jun-Seok Oh

Fourth Advisor

Dr. Driss Benhaddou

Access Setting

Masters Thesis-Campus Only

Abstract

The majority of V2V protocols presented in the literature utilize a combination of controlled access techniques (e.g., TDMA, FDMA, CDMA) to provide prioritized access to the communication medium. While these protocols split the capacity of the communication link to support a maximum number of users with different priority levels, our work utilizes a combination of CDMA and TDMA techniques to increase the number of concurrent users sharing the bandwidth. The proposed protocol provides an adaptive scheme that classifies the vehicle's messages as "urgent" or "non-urgent" based on its statistical parameters (e.g., speed, acceleration, directional stability) and the state of its neighboring vehicles (e.g., normal or urgent).

Furthermore, the proposed protocol achieves intelligent scheduling and allocation of messages and the underlying bandwidth to minimize the end-to-end communication delay and the costs associated with the deployment of Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) without the need for road-side equipment.

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