Performance Evaluation of Beaconing Schemes for Vehicular Platooning

Laghbi, H; Thomas, N

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-80932-3_3

Performance Evaluation of Beaconing Schemes for Vehicular Platooning

Lookup NU author(s): Hassan Laghbi ORCiD, Dr Nigel Thomas ORCiD

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Abstract

In this study, we propose PlatoonB, a distributed scheme designed to reduce communication channel load and maintain safety in vehicular platooning networks. Because all the evaluated schemes exhibited their poorest performance in maintaining the minimum inter-vehicle distance during the emergency braking experiment, we further propose PlatoonBE, an enhanced version of PlatoonB which performs better in the braking experiment. We conducted extensive simulations to compare our scheme with five other approaches -Static, Slotted, DynB1, DynB2 and JerkB- focusing on key performance indicators: channel busy ratio, packet collision rate per second, and minimum distance between platoon members. The results reveal that our scheme is light on the communication channel and safer in the braking scenario.