Evaluation and optimization of Decentralized Congestion Control Algorithms for Vehicular Networks

Nowadays, road traffic management is becoming a major challenge for realistic society. As a result, reliable communication between vehicles is the key point to this challenge. Currently, IEEE802.11p which is considered as de facto standard for road communication is designed to solve this challenge. However, the communication channel medium is still expected to get congested when a large number of vehicles exist. Target to solve this, European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) has standardized a set of Decentralized Congestion Control (DCC) mechanisms to control channel load. One of the main topics is achieving channel load control to guarantee reliable communication for platooning systems. In this paper, we focus on investigating on DCC reactive control approaches, aiming to provide comprehensive insights of how DCC framework transmission parameters, i.e. message generation rate, transmission power and data rate, will impact the stability of platooning systems. Besides, for each instance of the transmission parameter, we target to optimize the parameter and propose more stable control algorithms by running repetitive simulations.