Many cooperative applications designed to improve road safety rely on the frequent exchange of awareness messages among vehicles. Therefore, under high vehicle density, the channel medium is expected to get congested. To tackle this situation, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) specified a set of Decentralized Congestion Control (DCC) mechanisms that adapt the transmission parameters based on channel load measures. Due to some concerns about its effectiveness and stability, DCC and its overall philosophy are currently being revised and extended: all in all, DCC deserves additional investigations.For this purpose, in this paper a simulation analysis is presented, aiming at enriching the insight into the DCC behaviour, under a variety of channel load conditions and through the definition of both link-and application-layer performance metrics. Achieved results show that the DCC techniques are not really effective with the currently specified parameters settings; hence some hints are given to improve their performance.
In the last years, two main ICT enablers have been massively explored to enforce vehicular safety: GNSS-based positioning and wireless communications. In fact, by exchanging information on their respective positions, vehicles are expected to be timely aware of the hazards around them and, consequently, to be able to promptly react, hopefully decreasing the rate of accidents. Both wireless communications and positioning are unfortunately far from being ideal, especially on board: however, as recently proposed, they may both significantly benefit from the integration of the emerging Light-Fidelity (Li-Fi) technology. The paper discusses the Li-Fi perspective, shedding light on its potential benefits and issues, also with practical consideration.
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