Infotainment and road safety service support in vehicular networking: From a communication perspective

Vehicular ad hoc networking is an emerging technology for future on-the-road communications. Due to the virtue of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are expected to enable a plethora of communication-based automotive applications including diverse in-vehicle infotainment applications and road safety services. Even though vehicles are organized mostly in an ad hoc manner in the network topology, directly applying the existing communication approaches designed for traditional mobile ad hoc networks to large-scale VANETs with fast-moving vehicles can be ineffective and inefficient. To achieve success in a vehicular environment, VANET-specific communication solutions are imperative. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of various radio channel access protocols and resource management approaches, and discuss their suitability for infotainment and safety service support in VANETs. Further, we present recent research activities and related projects on vehicular communications. Potential challenges and open research issues are also discussed.     

End-to-End Rate Adaptation to Support Heterogeneous Services for Infrastructure-Based Vehicular Networks

Vehicle to Infrastructure(V2I) communications aim to provide mobile users on the road low-cost Internet and driver safety services.However, to meet Quality of Service(QoS) requirements of various applications and efficiently utilize limited wireless channel resourc-es, the transport layer protocol has to perform effective rate control in low channel quality and frequent changing topology communica-tion environment. In this paper, we propose a novel rate-control scheme in infrastructure based vehicular networks that avoids conges-tion and starvation and promotes fairness in end-to-end V2I communications. In vehicular networks, a bottleneck roadside unit(RSU)keeps track of its buffer size, aggregate incoming rate, and link throughput, and appropriately allocates bandwidth to traversing flows.With feedback information from the RSU, source nodes dynamically adjust their sending rates to avoid buffer overflow or starvation atthe bottleneck RSU. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can reduce not only packet losses owing to buffer overflow butalso buffer starvation time, which improves the utilization efficiency of wireless channel resource.     

Joint Optimization of Subchannel Reassignment and Power Adaptation for Multicarrier Cooperative Systems

An amplify-and-forward multicarrier cooperative system was proposed in this paper. The optimal resource-allocation problem was investigated in terms of improving data rate. An effective resource-allocation algorithm was proposed based on three techniques, adaptive modulation, subchannel reassignment design and transmit power adaptation. The designed subchannel reassignment not only increases the average data rate, but also raises the threshold of ＂water-filling＂ in optimizing power allocation that can further increase data rate. Since the power allocation is based on the designed subchannel reassignment, the complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced greatly. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm effectively increases the system＇s average data rate.     

Joint resource allocation over licensed and unlicensed spectrum in U-LTE networks

Wireless Networks - By sharing unlicensed spectrum with Wi-Fi networks, unlicensed LTE (U-LTE) is one of the promising approaches to further improve LTE network throughput. However, the problem of...     

一种新的分布式无线传感器网络定位方法

针对无线传感器网络节点能源受限的特征,以系统最小硬件开销为设计原则,提出了一种适用于基于测距的分布式定位方法(3/2-NANDB),该方法可在不增加单个独立节点硬件开销的情况下,利用附加的外部控制系统发射一个旋转定向波束充分挖掘节点间的冗余信息,有效排除节点位置的模糊性,从而可完全确定只有两个邻居节点的节点位置和部分只有一个邻居节点的节点位置,达到减少GPS携带节点数量、最大化网络内部可定位节点数目、扩大网络观察范围和延长无线传感器网络存活时间等目的.而利用该方法的节点二义性排除算法,还可以辅助其他现有的基于三邻居(3-NA)的定位算法提高整体定位性能.