Inter-Vehicle Communication Network with an Autonomous Relay Access Scheme

Fumihide KOJIMA  Hiroshi HARADA  Masayuki FUJISE  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E84-B   No.3   pp.566-575
Publication Date: 2001/03/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Innovative Mobile Communication Technologies at the Dawn of the 21st Century)
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Keyword: 
ITS,  inter-vehicle communication,  mobile network,  relay access,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes an autonomous relay access algorithm that provides an intelligent wireless network structure for inter-vehicle communication systems. The proposed algorithm introduces a special classification among mobile terminals and assigns terminals to one of several terminal groups, which are adaptively and autonomously constructed according to traffic conditions. The proposed algorithm uses the terminal groups to conduct relay access transmission among terminals, and achieves a high rate of successful inter-terminal transmission. Computer simulation confirms that the proposed algorithm can achieve a lower blocking probability than that without a relay access scheme.