arXiv · 1801.06153
LCD: Low Latency Command Dissemination for A Platoon of Vehicles
Abstract
In a vehicular platoon, a lead vehicle that is responsible for managing the platoon's moving directions and velocity periodically disseminates control commands to following vehicles based on vehicle-to-vehicle communications. However, reducing command dissemination latency with multiple vehicles while ensuring successful message delivery to the tail vehicle is challenging. We propose a new linear dynamic programming algorithm using backward induction and interchange arguments to minimize the dissemination latency of the vehicles. Furthermore, a closed form of dissemination latency in vehicular platoon is obtained by utilizing Markov chain with M/M/1 queuing model. Simulation results confirm that the proposed dynamic programming algorithm improves the dissemination rate by at least 50.9%, compared to similar algorithms in the literature. Moreover, it also approximates the best performance with the maximum gap of up to 0.2 second in terms of latency.
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Kai Li, Wei Ni, Eduardo Tovar, Mohsen Guizani. 2018-01-18. LCD: Low Latency Command Dissemination for A Platoon of Vehicles. https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06153
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