Environment-based Roadside Unit Deployment for Urban Scenarios

Authors

J. A. L. Calvo, H. A. Tokel, R. Mathar,

Abstract

        Vehicular communications are increasingly gaining importance in research and industry as a viable communication technology, which makes cost-efficient and reliable deployment strategies a key aspect for the planning of a communication network infrastructure. The most critical aspect, and at the same time, the biggest challenge is to obtain a total connectivity between the vehicles and the network elements. In this paper, an environment-based deployment strategy is developed, obtaining an optimal number and distribution of RSUs in a selected area while maximizing the connectivity of the network. The main distinctive aspect of the proposed strategy is the use of an environment-based radio channel model, which is specific for a given urban area. Once the site-specific propagation parameters of the proposed radio channel model are obtained, the optimal RSU distribution is achieved by solving a multi-objective, integer linear program. In addition, a metaheuristic algorithm based on tabu-search is proposed for the solution. The network optimization scheme suggested in this work shows an enhanced coverage granting an always on connectivity for vehicle to-infrastructure networks. Furthermore, due to the optimal number of RSUs, the cost of the network is minimized, which makes the deployment strategy feasible for real scenarios.

BibTEX Reference Entry 

@inproceedings{CaToMa16,
	author = {Jose Angel Leon Calvo and Halil Alper Tokel and Rudolf Mathar},
	title = "Environment-based Roadside Unit Deployment for Urban Scenarios",
	pages = "2037-2042",
	booktitle = "27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC)",
	address = {Valencia, Spain},
	month = Sep,
	year = 2016,
	hsb = RWTH-2016-06829,
	}

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