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ZTE Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (1): 3-10.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2014.01.001

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End-to-End Rate Adaptation to Support Heterogeneous Services for Infrastructure-Based Vehicular Networks

Yuanguo Bi1, Hangguan Shan2, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen3, and Hai Zhao1   

  1. 1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
    2. Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
    3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N21 3g1, Canada
  • Received:2014-02-17 Online:2014-03-25 Published:2014-03-25
  • About author:Yuanguo Bi (biyuanguo@ise.neu.edu.cn) is an associate professor at the College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China. He received his BSc degree from Liaoning University, China, in 2003. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Northeastern University, China, in 2006 and 2010. From 2007 to 2009, he was a visiting PhD student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His current research interests include medium-access control, QoS routing, multihop broadcast, transmission control in vehicular networks.
    Hangguan Shan (hshan@zju.edu.cn) received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University in 2004. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Fudan University in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Waterloo, Canada. In February 2011, he joined the Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, as an assistant professor. He is the co-recipient of the Best Industry Paper Award from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2011. His current research interests include resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning in diverse wireless networks.

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his BSc degree from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 1982. He received his MSc (1987) degree and PhD degree (1990) in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, USA, in 1987 and 1990. He was the associate chair for graduate studies at Rutgers from 2004 to 2008. Dr. Shen’s research focuses on resource management in interconnected wireless/wired networks, wireless network security, wireless body area networks, vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He has co-authored and/or edited six books and has published more than 600 papers and book chapters on wireless communications and networks, control and filtering.
    Hai Zhao (zhaohai@ise.neu.edu.cn) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Northeastern University, China. He received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 1982. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Northeastern University, China, in 1987 and 1995. He is the director of Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Embedded Technology. His current research interests include embedded Internet technology, wireless sensor network, pervasive computing, operating system, data and information fusion, and computer simulation and virtual reality. He has held programs such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, and National Class Lighted Torch Plan. He has published more than 300 academic papers, four books, and one national standard. He has successfully applied for 10 patents and received six awards for science and technology from the Liaoning province and ministry of China. He received allowance of the State Council due to his special contributions to the development of education.
  • Supported by:
    This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61101121; National High Technology Research and Development Program under Grant No. 2013AA102505; Key Laboratory Project Funds of Shenyang Ligong University under Grant No. 4771004kfs03; Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LY12F01021; Educational Committee of Liaoning Province science and technology research projects under Grant No. L2013096.

End-to-End Rate Adaptation to Support Heterogeneous Services for Infrastructure-Based Vehicular Networks

Yuanguo Bi1, Hangguan Shan2, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen3, and Hai Zhao1   

  1. 1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
    2. Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
    3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N21 3g1, Canada
  • 作者简介:Yuanguo Bi (biyuanguo@ise.neu.edu.cn) is an associate professor at the College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China. He received his BSc degree from Liaoning University, China, in 2003. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Northeastern University, China, in 2006 and 2010. From 2007 to 2009, he was a visiting PhD student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His current research interests include medium-access control, QoS routing, multihop broadcast, transmission control in vehicular networks.
    Hangguan Shan (hshan@zju.edu.cn) received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University in 2004. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Fudan University in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Waterloo, Canada. In February 2011, he joined the Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, as an assistant professor. He is the co-recipient of the Best Industry Paper Award from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2011. His current research interests include resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning in diverse wireless networks.

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his BSc degree from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 1982. He received his MSc (1987) degree and PhD degree (1990) in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, USA, in 1987 and 1990. He was the associate chair for graduate studies at Rutgers from 2004 to 2008. Dr. Shen’s research focuses on resource management in interconnected wireless/wired networks, wireless network security, wireless body area networks, vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He has co-authored and/or edited six books and has published more than 600 papers and book chapters on wireless communications and networks, control and filtering.
    Hai Zhao (zhaohai@ise.neu.edu.cn) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Northeastern University, China. He received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 1982. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Northeastern University, China, in 1987 and 1995. He is the director of Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Embedded Technology. His current research interests include embedded Internet technology, wireless sensor network, pervasive computing, operating system, data and information fusion, and computer simulation and virtual reality. He has held programs such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, and National Class Lighted Torch Plan. He has published more than 300 academic papers, four books, and one national standard. He has successfully applied for 10 patents and received six awards for science and technology from the Liaoning province and ministry of China. He received allowance of the State Council due to his special contributions to the development of education.
  • 基金资助:
    This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61101121; National High Technology Research and Development Program under Grant No. 2013AA102505; Key Laboratory Project Funds of Shenyang Ligong University under Grant No. 4771004kfs03; Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LY12F01021; Educational Committee of Liaoning Province science and technology research projects under Grant No. L2013096.

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Abstract: Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications aim to provide mobile users on the road low-cost Internet and driver safety services. However, to meet Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of various applications and efficiently utilize limited wireless channel resources, the transport layer protocol has to perform effective rate control in low channel quality and frequent changing topology communication environment. In this paper, we propose a novel rate-control scheme in infrastructure based vehicular networks that avoids congestion and starvation and promotes fairness in end-to-end V2I communications. In vehicular networks, a bottleneck roadside unit (RSU) keeps track of its buffer size, aggregate incoming rate, and link throughput, and appropriately allocates bandwidth to traversing flows. With feedback information from the RSU, source nodes dynamically adjust their sending rates to avoid buffer overflow or starvation at the bottleneck RSU. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can reduce not only packet losses owing to buffer overflow but also buffer starvation time, which improves the utilization efficiency of wireless channel resource.

Key words: vehicle to infrastructure communications, roadside unit, congestion avoidance, starvation avoidance, transport layer

摘要： Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications aim to provide mobile users on the road low-cost Internet and driver safety services. However, to meet Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of various applications and efficiently utilize limited wireless channel resources, the transport layer protocol has to perform effective rate control in low channel quality and frequent changing topology communication environment. In this paper, we propose a novel rate-control scheme in infrastructure based vehicular networks that avoids congestion and starvation and promotes fairness in end-to-end V2I communications. In vehicular networks, a bottleneck roadside unit (RSU) keeps track of its buffer size, aggregate incoming rate, and link throughput, and appropriately allocates bandwidth to traversing flows. With feedback information from the RSU, source nodes dynamically adjust their sending rates to avoid buffer overflow or starvation at the bottleneck RSU. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can reduce not only packet losses owing to buffer overflow but also buffer starvation time, which improves the utilization efficiency of wireless channel resource.

关键词: vehicle to infrastructure communications, roadside unit, congestion avoidance, starvation avoidance, transport layer