Iterative multipacket detection with FDE based MAC protocol in vehicular ad hoc networks

Abstract

Wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE), is especially designed to support vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) requirements, where rapidly changing channel conditions introduces unsynchronized transmissions. In such networks, instead of dealing with interferences in medium access control (MAC) layer or physical layer alone, both layers should be considered to cooperate and complement each other. In this paper, multipacket detection (MPD) technique with frequency domain equalization (FDE) is proposed for VANETs, with cyclically shifted different interleavers for different nodes, to remove interference and reducing the information exchange between nodes. These promising multi-hop wireless networks are used in situations, where temporary network connectivity is needed. Therefore, to improve the communication between vehicles (V2V) and from vehicles to roadside infrastructure (V2I), MPD-FDE with interference cancellation (IC) schemes can be used iteratively to successfully decode and receive even colliding packets. For designing such a protocol, different key aspects are discussed with an emphasis on iterative MPD-FDE. Numerical results with different network nodes, show the MPD-FDE performances for coded and uncoded transmissions with different IC schemes, where successive IC (SIC) is much better than parallel IC (PIC) schemes. It is also shown that the proposed protocol provide reliable detection and excellent throughput improvements, with much less resource consumption compared to multiple random interleavers.