Stochastic Analysis of Network Coding Based Relay-Assisted I2V Communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Abstract EN

We investigate the information transmission in a typical communication scenario in the intelligent transportation systems (ITS), that is, infrastructures providing ITS services that intend to broadcast independent messages to the vehicles within their coverage areas.

Due to the dynamic nature of wireless signal propagation links and interuser interference, it is hard to guarantee satisfactory performance by direct infrastructure to vehicle (I2V) transmissions.

To solve this problem, we propose allowing certain vehicles to serve as relays to assist in the information distribution process and applying a class of finite-field network codes to efficiently use the available spectrum resources.

Considering that the infrastructure information sources and all vehicles are randomly distributed following Poisson point processes, we model a general urban ITS communication network and based on the stochastic geometry we derive the probability that a vehicle can successfully recover all the desired messages from its serving infrastructure.

The analytical and numerical results clearly demonstrate that our proposed network coding based relay-assisted I2V transmission can significantly improve the communication performance of the conventional direct I2V transmission strategy.