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Is IEEE 802.11p V2X Obsolete Before it is Even Deployed? 37<br />

Table 1 Cumulative size of<br />

CAM high and low frequency<br />

packets<br />

High frequency Low frequency<br />

CAM 330 bit 347 bit<br />

Security header 93 byte<br />

BTP header<br />

4 byte<br />

GeoNetworking (SHB) 36 byte<br />

LLC<br />

8 byte<br />

MAC<br />

28 byte<br />

Total 211 byte 213 byte<br />

The generation of CAMs is started when all vehicles have entered the road and<br />

reached their target speed to guarantee a constant channel load. Each ITS-S adds a<br />

random offset from 0 to 500 ms from this time until it generates the first CAM to<br />

minimize the risk of collisions. In a real environment the CA basic services of<br />

different vehicles would also be asynchronous. We chose this setup as it best<br />

resembles the environment in which CACC applications will typically operate: a<br />

highway condition with high vehicle speeds and few obstructions to wireless signals.<br />

In this scenario, each ITS-S will generate a CAM approximately every<br />

111 ms. Only the mandatory information is included into the generated messages,<br />

yielding the smallest possible CAMs. Table 1 gives an overview of the PDU size as<br />

a CAM is passed down through the network stack. Packets are sent via the AC_VI<br />

queue.<br />

The DCC mechanism was configured according to the values specified in [10]<br />

and shown in Table 2. For the Active state, however, we constrained the packet<br />

interval to 0.1 s rather than the 0.5 s default packet interval. This is consistent with<br />

the specification as the Active state for the CCH only enforces TPC [10]. This<br />

implies that applications are free to override the default values defined for other<br />

parameters—like the packet interval—as long as they do not exceed the minimum<br />

and maximum values. We chose 0.1 s for the packet interval longer intervals<br />

quickly render timing critical applications like CACC impossible. The simulation<br />

was run with 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 90 vehicles participating in the VANET.<br />

Different statistics were recorded, the channel load, DCC state, packet collisions as<br />

well as the minimum, mean and maximum age of information from neighbor<br />

vehicles. Each run lasts 300 s, the results are presented in the following section.<br />

Table 2 DCC parameter<br />

settings for AC_VI used in<br />

the simulation; from left to<br />

right: states RELAXED,<br />

Active, RESTRICTIVE<br />

Channel load<br />

Parameter

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