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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2016.5.10.327

An Adaptive Vehicle Platoon Formation Mechanism for Road Capacity Improvement  

Su, Dongliang (서울시립대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Ahn, Sanghyun (서울시립대학교 컴퓨터과학부)
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KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems / v.5, no.10, 2016 , pp. 327-330 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the road environment with lots of vehicles, we can increase the number of vehicles on the road (i.e., road capacity) and enhance the comfortability of drivers if vehicles are organized into platoons. In the traditional vehicle platooning mechanisms, a pre-determined set of vehicles are allowed to form a platoon and, among them, a specific vehicle is designated as the platoon leader. In this type of platoon mechanisms, platoon is limited in improving the road capacity because the vehicles allowed to involve into platooning are restricted. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an adaptive platoon formation mechanism that allows any vehicle to be a platoon leader from which a platoon is formed. In the proposed mechanism, a platoon leader is elected based on the relative velocity and location information of neighboring vehicles obtained through the periodic exchange of beacon messages among vehicles. Through the NS-3 based simulations, we show the performance of our proposed mechanism in terms of road capacity improvement.
Keywords
Road Capacity; Vehicle Platoon; Platoon Leader; Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Communication;
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