Analysis of Packet drops and Channel Crowding in Vehicle Platooning using V2X communication

With the increase in road fatalities and energy consumption, there is a need to improve road traffic in terms of safety and fuel efficiency. Vehicle platooning is one of the areas in road transportation that can be improved to reduce road freight operational costs. In this paper, an MPC (Model Predi...

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Published in2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) pp. 281 - 286
Main Authors Tangirala, Nagacharan Teja, Abraham, Anuj, Choudhury, Apratim, Vyas, Pranjal, Zhang, Rongkai, Dauwels, Justin
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2018
Subjects
Acceleration
Antennas
CACC
Channel crowding
Communication
Gain
MPC
Packet drop
Platooning
Roads
Safety
Synchronization
Topology
V2V
WAVE
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Summary:With the increase in road fatalities and energy consumption, there is a need to improve road traffic in terms of safety and fuel efficiency. Vehicle platooning is one of the areas in road transportation that can be improved to reduce road freight operational costs. In this paper, an MPC (Model Predictive Control) algorithm is formulated based on the combination of Constant Distance (CD) and Headway Time (HT) topology. The simulations are carried out for platooning of Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs) using an integrated simulation platform, which combines VISSIM, MATLAB and Network Simulator (NS3). Deliberate communication failures are introduced through NS3 to study the platoon behavior. Further, a solution is proposed to avoid the channel crowding issue. Simulations of the platoon controller indicate that the vehicles follow a desired speed and maintain a desired intervehicular distance. It is also found that the platoon controller avoids collisions due to consecutive packet drops. Finally, an improvement in Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) is observed with the proposed solution to avoid channel crowding issue.
DOI:10.1109/SSCI.2018.8628872