Research Article

Rate Adaptation Mechanism with Available Data Rate Trimming and Data Rate Information Provision for V2I Communications

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Vehicle’s speed10, 60, 100 km/h
Traffic modelFTP: sends a 2048-MByte file
CBR: sends a 1500-byte packet at intervals of 222 μs
Wireless mediumIEEE 802.11p (data rate: 3, 4.5, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, and 27 Mbit/s)
Rate adaptation mechanismARF (counter-based)Onoe (sample-based)
Transmission power20 dBm
Propagation modelTwo-ray ground reflection model
Nakagami-m fading model
Number of simulation trials100