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  • DynaVLC 13 towards dynamic GTS allocation in VLC networks
    Publication . Kurunathan, John Harrison; Gutiérrez Gaitán, Miguel; Sámano-Robles, Ramiro; Tovar, Eduardo
    Envisioned to deliver superior Quality of Service (QoS) by offering faster data rates and reduced latency in 6G communication scenarios, pioneering communication protocols like the IEEE 802.15.7 are poised to facilitate emerging application trends (e.g. metaverse). The IEEE 802.15.7 standard that supports visible light communication (VLC) provides determinism for time-critical reliable communication through its guaranteed time-slots mechanism of the contention-free period (CFP) while supporting non-time-critical communication through contention-access period (CAP). Nevertheless, the IEEE 802.15.7 MAC structure is fixed and statically defined at the beginning of the network creation. This rigid definition of the network can be detrimental when the traffic characteristics evolve dynamically, for example, due to environmental or user-driven workload conditions. To this purpose, this paper proposes a resource-aware dynamic architecture for IEEE 802.15.7 networks that efficiently adapts the superframe structure to traffic dynamics. Notably, this technique was shown to reduce the overall delay and throughput by up to 45% and 30%, respectively, when compared to the traditional IEEE 802.15.7 protocol performance under the same network conditions.
  • Work-In-Progress: Worst-Case Response Time of Intersection Management Protocols
    Publication . Reddy, Radha; Almeida, Luis; Gutiérrez Gaitán, Miguel; Kurunathan, John Harrison; Santos, Pedro M.; Tovar, Eduardo
    Intersections are critical elements of urban traffic management and are identified as bottlenecks prone to traffic congestion and accidents. Intelligent intersection management plays a significant role in improving traffic efficiency and safety determining, among other metrics, the waiting time that vehicles incur when crossing an intersection. This work presents a preliminary analysis of the worst-case response time of intersection management protocols that handle mixed traffic with autonomous and human-driven vehicles. We deduce theoretical bounds for such time considered as the interval between the injection of a vehicle in the road system and its departure from the intersection, considering different intersection management protocols for mixed traffic, namely the Synchronous Intersection Management Protocol (SIMP) and several configurations of the conventional Round-Robin (RR) policy. Simulation results validate the analytical bounds partially. Ongoing work addresses thequeue dynamics and its reliable detection by traffic simulators.
  • Joint spectrum and antenna selection diversity for V2V links with ground reflections
    Publication . Robles, Ramiro; Gutiérrez Gaitán, Miguel; Javanmardi, Gowhar; Kurunathan, Harrison
    This paper addresses the study of a fading-rejection algorithm based on joint spectrum and antenna selection in a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) multiple antenna system. The central objective of this selective scheme is to provide resilience against the destructive effects of the superposition of line-of-sight (LOS) and ground-reflected signals. The paper also provides an extension to channels that combine such deterministic superposition of multiple paths and reflections with an uncorrelated double scattering component, which shows how the algorithm is also beneficial under more general channel modelling assumptions. A multiple-ray performance model is used to describe the deterministic signal interactions between multiple antennas across contiguous vehicles. The antenna selection component is shown to reject deterministic fading, particularly at short values of the inter-vehicular distance. By contrast, when the spectrum bands are correctly chosen, the spectrum selection component can exhibit gains for a wider range of inter-vehicular distances than its antenna selection counterpart. This indicates that both components of the proposed solution are, in some cases, complementary, and therefore, they should be considered together in V2V multiple antenna design. Derivation of the statistics of the selective scheme considering an additional double scattering stochastic channel component is here proposed. Simulation results from all expressions show important gains for a given range of inter-vehicular distances.