The design of the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer for vehicular networks should carefully cope with fast changing topologies caused by vehicle mobility, short connection lifetimes, harsh propagation environments, high node density, and heterogeneous traffic nature and quality demands. This chapter provides a detailed description of MAC functions (i.e., channel access rules, prioritization schemes, frame types, and formats), as specified by the IEEE 802.11p and ETSI ITS-G5 standards, and the multichannel operation. By discussing the main challenges which the MAC has to deal with, the chapter also presents the main evaluation tools (analytics, simulations, field-tests) that can be used to analyze the MAC performance.
The MAC Layer of VANETs
Vehicular ad hoc Networks ; Chapter : 4 ; 83-122
2015-01-01
40 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
VANET , MAC , IEEE 802.11p , ITS-G5 , OCB , Broadcast , Hidden terminals , Collisions , EDCA , 1609.4 , 1609.3 , WAVE , WSA , PLCP , Metrics Engineering , Communications Engineering, Networks , Computer Communication Networks , Signal, Image and Speech Processing , Automotive Engineering , Transportation
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