Research Article

Measurement-Based Analysis on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Connectivity in Tunnel Environment

Table 1

Connectivity models.

ReferenceSystem modelParametersScenariosMeasurement

[4]Car following modelCommunication range, vehicle speed, the length of vehicle, the safe distance, and traffic lightsUrban road with intersectionsNo
[5, 18, 47]The vehicle speed follows Gaussian distribution and the arrival time of vehicles obeys an exponential distributionCommunication range, vehicle speed, density and arrival rate, the ratio of active cars, the vehicle safety distance, user behavior, the ratio of cars transmit signals, and the distance between two adjacent RSUsA two-way lane and an one-wayone-lane highwayNo
[6]A unit disk graph radio connectivity modelVehicle movements, transmission range, and the number of neighborsHighwayYes
[7, 3840, 48]The arrival of vehicles obeys the Poisson distributionVehicle movements, transmission range, velocity, the probability of a car passing through the entrance or exit, and vehicle arrival rateHighwayNo
[8]The arrival of vehicles obeys a Poisson distribution and the adjacent vehicle arrival time and the adjacent vehicle distance follow the exponential distribution; generalized speed factor system modelThe number of road lanes, vehicle density and speed, transmission range, the vehicular mobility, and the vehicle arrival rateHighwayNo
[11]A simple unit disk modelThe vehicular speed, communication range, and the component speed and sizeUrbanYes
[14, 15, 49]A Poisson distribution, a UD model; log-normal shadowing modelThe coverage range of BSs and vehicles, vehicle density, inter-BS distance, multihop communication, average length of vehicles, minimum safety headway, the distribution of vehicles, and one-hop transmission rangeA roadNo
[16]A multipriority Markov modelThe coverage of RSUs and vehicles, traffic density, the platoon ratio of VANET, and the distance of adjacent RSUsOne-way road and two-way roadNo
[17]The arrival of vehicles obeys a homogeneous Poisson process; Nakagami distributionUser behavior, active vehicle ratio, traffic flow, and the channel fading factorsHighwayNo
[50]The arrival of vehicles follows homogenous Poisson process; Nakagami-m distributionNakagami fading parameter, transmission power, PL exponent, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold valueA roadNo
[51]In free-flowing traffic and congestion conditions, the headway distance follows the exponential distribution and the Gaussian unitary ensemble distribution, respectively; Nakagami-m modelHeadway distance and vehicle densityHighwayYes
[52, 53]Path loss modelAdverse weather conditions, traffic density, communication range, and path loss threshold valueA two-lane road; intersectionYes
[1925]A queuing theoretic model, path loss model, Nakagami, Rayleigh, Weibull, and rice fading modelPL exponent, shadow fading, fading factors, vehicle density, vehicle speed, vehicle arrival rate, transmission range, and received SNR thresholdHighwayNo
[1, 37]Traffic flow model, path loss model, and small-scale fading modelDifferent traffic flows and effective communication coverageHighwayYes
[27, 28]The dual-slope path loss and traffic flow modelPath loss exponent, traffic flow, and intervehicle distanceUrban; highwayNo
[30, 31]An equivalent traffic model based on queuing theoryTransmission range, traffic parameters, and transmission rangeUnidirectional lane road; highwayNo
[10, 32]Two mobility modelsThe mobility pattern, transmission range, bus routes, traffic lights, and background trafficStreetsNo
[36, 54]The Poisson traffic model, the UD model, and log-normal shadowing modelDistance between adjacent BSs, radio coverage range of vehicle, traffic density, the number of roadside infrastructure, data sinks, the maximum number of hops in a propagation path, and intervehicle distanceThe road between two adjacent BSsNo
[41]The cluster-based analytical model, the UD model, and log-normal shadowing modelPropagation distance, vehicle density, the distribution of vehicle, one-hop transmission range, and the minimum safety distance of two adjacent carsHighwayNo
[55]Dynamic clustering model, the adjacent vehicle distances follow the exponential distribution, and the distribution of vehicles obeys the homogenous Poisson distributionVehicle driving, vehicle speed, and the traffic environment featuresUrbanNo
[56]The arrival time of vehicles obeys exponential distribution and the vehicle speed follows the Gaussian distributionVehicle density, vehicles communication range, and the minimum safety distanceA two-lane roadNo
[57]The exponential distribution model and generalized extreme value (GEV) distributionIntervehicle spacing distribution and vehicle densityHighwayNo
[42]The cell transmission model and Rayleigh distributionThe vehicle flow, the message size, the communication radius, the path loss exponent, and the data rateFreewayNo
[58]A new cellular automata-based mobility modelTraffic densityUrban intersectionNo
[59]The triangular modelThe transmission range, vehicle density, and street widthIntersectionNo
[60]BA-realtime, BA-realtime + TL, and BA-fullroadVehicle mobility model, vehicle density, vehicle speed, transmission range, and the position and number of RSUsA roadNo
[61]Microscopic mobility and lane changing decision modelNetwork metric data delivery rate, vehicle density, velocity and arrival rate, deceleration or acceleration, and the safety gapHighwayNo
[62]Microscopic modelsCommunication range, vehicular density, the number of highway lanes, and the speed and specific daytimeHighwayNo
[63]Graph metricsVehicle rerouting capacityNo
[64]The bond percolation model and Bollobas modelVehicle density and transmission rangeNo