Research Article

A Study on Vehicle Connectivity for VANETs Adopting Beamforming Antenna Array

Table 1

Parameters used in simulations.

ParametersDefault value

Total time s
Rate of vehicle flow
Time headway threshold s and 25 s
Rate of relay flow
Mean velocity m/s
Signal frequency GHz
Transmitted power dBm
Gain of transmitting antenna dB
Reference distance m
Reference received power dBm
Received power threshold dBm
Received power threshold dBm