This book presents link-layer cooperative frameworks to improve
transmission reliability and network throughput of distributed TDMA MAC
protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The main objective of
this book is to present link-layer node cooperation schemes to enhance
the link-layer performance of vehicular networks, in terms of
reliability and system throughput. The authors present approaches
proposed for the medium access control (MAC) and node cooperation in
VANETs. The authors also cover cooperative ADHOC MAC for point-to-point
communication between a pair of source and destination nodes, and
cooperative relay broadcasting for broadcast services in this book. The
performance of node cooperation frameworks is evaluated via mathematical
analysis and computer simulations, in comparison with distributed TDMA
MAC protocols without cooperation. The proposed node cooperation
frameworks enhance the performance of distributed TDMA MAC and make it
more robust to tackle the dynamic networking conditions in VANETs.
Furthermore, with cooperation enabled transmission, the performance of
distributed TMDA MAC is more suitable to support the wide range of
mobile applications and their strict service requirements which is
discussed in this book.
The proposed node cooperation schemes and distributed cooperation
decisions can be extended to wireless systems other than distributed
TDMA MAC, such as cellular communication, for vehicular communications
introduced in this book. This book is useful for researchers from
academia and industry, as well as advanced level students interested in
vehicular communication networks. It is also useful for professionals
and engineers developing applications that use cooperative wireless
communication systems.
