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GRS: John Otto (Postponed to a date yet TBD)n/a
June 4, 2009
Ford ITW Auditorium – Room 1-350
John Otto
"Down the Block and Around the Corner: The Impact of Radio Propagation on Inter-vehicle Wireless Communication"
To appear in ICDCS, June 2009.
This talk will not take place today; it has abeen postponed to a date yet to be determined. | | Abstract: Vehicular networks are emerging as a new distributed system environment with myriad possible applications. Most studies on vehicular networks are carried out via simulation, given the logistical and economical problems with large-scale deployments. This paper investigates the impact of realistic radio propagation settings on the evaluation of VANET-based systems. Using a set of instrumented cars, we collected IEEE 802.11b signal propagation measurements between vehicles in a variety of urban and suburban environments. We found that signal propagation between vehicles varies in different settings, especially between line-of-sight ("down the block") and non line-of-sight ("around the corner") communication in the same setting. Using a probabilistic shadowing model, we evaluate the impact of different parameter settings on the performance of an epidemic data dissemination protocol and discuss the implications of our findings. We also suggest a variation of a basic signal propagation model that incorporates additional realism without sacrificing scalability by taking advantage of environmental information, including node locations and street information. |
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