Analytical framework for safety level evaluation of periodic-based safety applications in Vehicular ad hoc networks

We introduce an analytical framework for quantitative safety level evaluation of periodic-based safety applications in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The framework is based on Markov chain modeling and associates the probability of successful reception of safety messages by the safety application with the safety level which is eventually offered to the passengers. The relationship between distance and safety risk is also incorporated in the proposed model. The idea of this paper challenges the common trend in literature in which quality of safety (pertaining to safety application) is evaluated through the same parameters as quality of service (of the network). Based on the proposed framework, we investigate the effects of vehicles' transmission range on the evaluated safety level. Further we showed that despite of poor performance of the MAC layer of current standard, which is based on IEEE 802.11p, invoking application layer TDMA-like scheduling improves the quality of safety noticeably satisfying the requirements of most of the life safety applications.