Cross-Layer Design Based Transmit Antenna Selection for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Basma Bouraoui (1, 2, 3, 4) , Marie Zwingelstein (1, 2, 3) , M Gharbi (1, 2, 3) , Iyad Dayoub (1, 2, 3) , Rabah Attia (4)

1 IEMN-DOAE - Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - Département Opto-Acousto-Électronique - UMR 8520
2 COMNUM - IEMN - COMmunications NUMériques - IEMN
3 IEMN - Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520
4 SERCOM - Laboratoire Systèmes électroniques et réseaux de communications (Ecole polytechnique de Tunisie)

The wide range of applications in Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) make vehicles connected all along the trip. For reasons of security or leisure, the connected vehicles ask frequently to establish connection in the network. Due to the high request for access to the channel, some vehicles could be temporarily blocked from sending or receiving data. In this paper, we are interested in minimizing the vehicles blocking effect and in improving the throughput in VANET by implementing a cross-layer design (PHY/MAC) based on transmit antenna selection jointly with a dedicated MAC protocol. We show a significant performance improvement of the throughput in the network.

Mots clés: "Cross-layer design"; "multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) "; "ZF-BLAST detector"; "transmit antenna selection"; "Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs)"; "throughput"

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Electronique

Basma Bouraoui, Marie Zwingelstein, M Gharbi, Iyad Dayoub, Rabah Attia. Cross-Layer Design Based Transmit Antenna Selection for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks. Communication Technologies for Vehicles, 9066, Springer International Publishing, pp.24-34, 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-17765-6_3⟩. ⟨hal-03382968⟩