Simulation Framework for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control with Empirical DSRC Module

TL;DR

This paper introduces a Vissim-based simulation framework with an analytical DSRC module to evaluate V2V communication reliability and deployment strategies for connected and automated vehicles.

Contribution

It presents a novel microscopic traffic simulation framework incorporating a realistic DSRC communication model derived from ns-2, enabling evaluation of deployment strategies.

Findings

Packet reception rate exceeds 93% in tested scenarios

Deployment strategies influence V2V communication reliability

Framework demonstrates scalability for network-level evaluations

Abstract

Wireless communication plays a vital role in the promising performance of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology. This paper proposes a Vissim-based microscopic traffic simulation framework with an analytical dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) module for packet reception. Being derived from ns-2, a packet-level network simulator, the DSRC probability module takes into account the imperfect wireless communication that occurs in real-world deployment. Four managed lane deployment strategies are evaluated using the proposed framework. While the average packet reception rate is above 93\% among all tested scenarios, the results reveal that the reliability of the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication can be influenced by the deployment strategies. Additionally, the proposed framework exhibits desirable scalability for traffic simulation and it is able to evaluate transportation-network-level deployment strategies in the near future for CAV technologies.