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ZTE Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (3): 3-12.doi: DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2016.03.001

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On Coexistence of Vehicular Overlay Network and H2H Terminals on PRACH in LTE

Nargis Khan, Jelena Mišić, and Vojislav B. Mišić   

  1. Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
  • Received:2016-01-20 Online:2016-08-01 Published:2019-11-29
  • About author:Nargis Khan (nargis.khan@ryerson.ca) is working towards her PhD degree in computer science from Ryerson University, Canada, where she obtained her MSc degree in 2011. Her current research interests include vehicular machine to machine communications, LTE, machine to machine communications and IEEE 802.15.4.
    Jelena Mi?i?(jmisic@ryerson.ca) is Professor of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Canada. She has published over 110 papers in archival journals and more than 170 papers at international conferences in the areas of wireless networks, in particular wireless personal area network and wireless sensor network protocols, performance evaluation, and security. She serves on editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Computer Networks, Ad hoc Networks, Security and Communication Networks, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Int. Journal of Sensor Networks, and Int. Journal of Telemedicine and Applications. She is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM.
    Vojislav B. Mi?i?(vmisic@ryerson.ca) is Professor of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Canada. He received his PhD in computer science from University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1993. His research interests include performance evaluation of wireless networks and systems and software engineering. He has authored or co-authored six books, 20 book chapters, and over 200 papers in archival journals and at prestigious international conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Ad hoc Networks, Peer-to-Peer Networks and Applications, and International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE, and member of ACM and AIS.

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Abstract: Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) that use the IEEE 802.11p communication standard face a number of challenges, not least when it comes to safety messages on the VANET control channel (CCH) where short delay times and reliable delivery are of primary importance. In this paper we propose a vehicular machine-to-machine (VM2M) overlay network that uses Long Term Evolution (LTE) physical random access channel (PRACH) to emulate VANET CCH. The overlay network uses dedicated preambles to separate vehicular traffic from regular LTE traffic and a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA-CA) layer similar to the one used in IEEE 802.15.4 to avoid the four step handshake and the overhead it incurs. The performance of the proposed overlay is evaluated under a wide range of PRACH parameters which conform to the scenarios with high vehicle velocities and large distances between roadside units (RSUs) that may be encountered in rural areas and on highways.

Key words: vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), VANET control channel (CCH), 3GPP long term evolution (LTE), physical random access channel (PRACH), IEEE 802.15.4, human-to-human (H2H) traffic