Handover in vehicular communication networks

Abstract

Novel techniques of Road Side Unit (RSU) selection for handover were investigated in this study. It was determined that there are currently no efficient RSU selection schemes, which is a severe issue for conventional techniques following the current IEEE 802.11p standard. Recently, dataaided OFDM (DA-OFDM), such as Pseudo-Random-Postfix-OFDM (PRP-OFDM) and Time Domain Synchronous-OFDM (TDS-OFDM), have received attention because of their capability for higher effectiveness with better transmission quality. This study derived the maximum likelihood (ML) channel estimation for DA-OFDM and evaluated and compared proposed techniques by computer simulations.Index Terms-IEEE 802.11p, intelligent transportation system (ITS), OFDM, handover