EVC-TDMA: An enhanced TDMA based cooperative MAC protocol for vehicular networks

In order to optimize the communication mechanism in the vehicular adHoc networks (VANETs), this paper presents an enhanced TDMA based cooperative MAC protocol called EVC-TDMA. In EVC-TDMA, when the vehicles need to transmit multi-hop messages, they choose relay nodes dynamically according to the relative speeds and buffer lengths. By monitoring the broadcasting messages, the other nodes can know the buffer lengths of the relay nodes, they will help transmit the relay messages when their buffer are idle or less. Considering the data arrive follows a Poison Point Process, this paper analyzes the nodes' buffer length based on a two-dimension Markov process. The simulation results show that EVC-TDMA can reduce the dropping rate and improve the throughput of the network.