Research Article

Real-Time Communication Support for Cooperative, Infrastructure-Based Traffic Safety Applications

Table 5

List of simulation parameters.

RSU transmission radius400 m
Superframe length100 ms
Vehicle speed interval100–150 km/h
Propagation delay0.01 ms
Bit rate6–24 Mbit/s
SIFS delay0.016 ms
Polling packet length20 byte
Vehicle heartbeat: packet length500 byte
Road information update: packet length1.5 Kbyte
RSU recommendation: packet length1.5 Kbyte