Journal
SENSORS
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s17020338
Keywords
VANET; MAC; CSMA; TDMA
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61572530, 61103204, 61402541, 61462007, 61402542]
- Next Generation Internet Innovation Foundation [NGII201601130]
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Many Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) based medium access control (MAC) protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been proposed recently. Contrary to the common perception that they are competitors, we argue that the underlying strategies used in these MAC protocols are complementary. Based on this insight, we design CTMAC, a MAC protocol that synthesizes existing strategies; namely, random accessing channel (used in CSMA-style protocols) and arbitral reserving channel (used in TDMA-based protocols). CTMAC swiftly changes its strategy according to the vehicle density, and its performance is better than the state-of-the-art protocols. We evaluate CTMAC using at-scale simulations. Our results show that CTMAC reduces the channel completion time and increases the network goodput by 45% for a wide range of application workloads and network settings.
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