Interference and Efficient Transmission Range via V2V Communication at Roads Traffic Intersections

Abstract

Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication technology has dramatically promoted many promising applications to enhance traffic safety, mobility, and sustainability. However, However, we still lack the understanding of some fundamental properties of V2V technology under urban traffic conditions, such as interference at traffic intersections. Motivated by this view, this study develops the mathematical formulations to capture the worst-case interference at traffic intersections, considering the macroscopic traffic flow conditions and critical road geometric features including intersection diameter D, and intersection angle α. Built upon these formulations, we develop a mathematical model to approximate a conservative transmission range to sustain the successful V2V transmission at a traffic intersection. Our experiments illustrate that the proposed analytical formulations can provide accurate approximations for the interference and the corresponding transmission range at orthogonal (non-orthogonal) traffic intersections under various traffic congestion levels. Furthermore, this study conducted other experiments to understand how intersection geometric features (such as (D, α)) impact V2V communication at traffic intersections. The results illustrate that severer interference and smaller transmission range occur at a smaller intersection (with smaller diameter D) under heavy traffic congestion level. And the orthogonal intersection gives critical thresholds (such as severest interference and minimum transmission range) under all different traffic conditions, which help in understanding the V2V communication performance at an urban traffic intersection. These findings will potentially help to develop efficient MAC algorithms adaptive to urban traffic conditions, and further support various ITS applications using V2V communication. interference and transmission range.