IEEE 802.

11p Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V)

Communication
Mr. Charles Joseph Ogala
CIU Research Group
Cyprus International University
March 03, 2011

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Mehmet TOYCAN

 Agenda
What We’ll Cover Today!!!
1.1.Motivation
Motivation

2.
2. Line
LineOf
OfSight
Sight

3.
3. NN-Line
-LineOf
OfSight
Sight
4.
4. Differences
Differencesbetween
betweenIEEE
IEEE802.11p
802.11pand
and
IEEE
IEEE802.11a
802.11a

6.WAVE
6.WAVE(Wireless
(WirelessAccess
Accessin
inVehicular
VehicularEnvironments
Environments))
Executive Summary
 Introduction
• V2V promoters focus on vehicle-to-vehicle and
vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. Dedicated
applications include toll collection, red light
duration broadcast at traffic lights or hot spots for
transferring maps, routing information or traffic
jams. But also active accident warnings should be
transferred from cars in a traffic jam to the
oncoming cars.
 Motivation
• The main motivation behind this work is to enable
public safety applications that can save lives and
improve traffic flow.

• The main challenges for the 802.11p standard are

frequency spectrum availability and fading.
 Line Of Sight
• The term LOS path is referred the situation where
we have visual line of sight contact between the
transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna.

• The Ricean distribution can be used for modeling

small-scale fading
 Non-Line Of Sight
• For the N-LOS path it is found that the amplitude
of the received signal due to fading obeys Rayleigh
fading distribution and the delay spreads were
several times greater than that for the LOS.
 Differences between IEEE 802.11p and
IEEE 802.11a
• Bandwidth
In 802.11p, the 10 MHz bandwidth is usually used, in order
to make the signal more robust against fading.

• Carrier spacing
The 802.11p signal uses a carrier spacing reduced by ½
compared to 802.11a.
• Symbol length
The symbol length is doubled, making the signal more
robust against fading.
• Frequency
The 802.11p standard usually operates in the 5.8 GHz and
5.9 GHz frequency bands.
 WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular
Environments)
• The standard consists of four parts, which are
stated below

• IEEE 1609.1
• IEEE 1609.2
• IEEE 1609.3
• IEEE 1609.4
 DSRC (Dedicated Short Range
Communications)
• U.S. Federal Communication Commission that has
allocated 75MHz spectrum at 5:925 GHz -5:85 GHz
exclusively for V2V

• The DSRC band is a free but licensed spectrum. It is

free because the FCC does not charge a fee for the
spectrum usage.
• The DSRC spectrum is structured into seven 10 MHz
wide channels. Channel 178 is the control channel
(CCH), which is restricted to safety communications
only .

• The two channels at the ends of the spectrum band

are reserved for special uses .

• The rest are service channels (SCH) available for

both safety and non-safety usage.
 DSRC
Channel Allocation
 Simulators
• I intend to use MATLAB to simulate the
network and try and improve the network
with respect to multi-path fading as already
there are some examples on MATLAB
 Conclusion

• In this presentation, we began with the core

motivation, we than spoke about the Line of sight
and Non-Line of sight. Then we try to see the
differences between IEEE 802.11p and
IEEE 802.11a all part of the protocol and aspect of
Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) which is the core area of
the study
THANK YOU !

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