Efficiency and Reliability of One-Hop Broadcasting in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

In Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) based vehicular networking, each vehicle periodically broadcasts control updates (that contain location and speed information etc.) to its neighbors, as a key component of traffic management and safety applications. The effectiveness of such a broadcast feature can be measured by two metrics: (1) the efficiency, or the average rate (number of nodes per sec) to which a source can deliver its...