An effective back-off selection technique for reliable beacon reception in VANETs

• Main Authors: Shah, Syed Adeel Ali, Ahmed, Ejaz, Qureshi, Muhammad Ahsan, Jan, Sadeeq, Noor, Rafidah Md
• Format: Article
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/23487/; https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4019

In safety-critical scenarios, reliable reception of beacons transmitted by a subject vehicle is critical to avoid vehicle collision. According to the employed contention window sizes in IEEE 802.11p, beacons are transmitted with a small contention window size. As a result, multiple vehicles contend...