Link Delay Modeling for Two-Way Traffic Road Segment in Vehicular Networks

This paper proposes expected link delay (i.e., data delivery delay) on a two-way road segment for carry-and-forward data delivery schemes in vehicular networks. Recently, a lot of vehicles are able to communicate with each other by dedicate short-range communications (DSRC) for vehicular networking. In the near future, more vehicles will be equipped with DSRC devices because of governmental policies for driving safety. In this paper, we derive link delay model on a two-way road segment. This link delay model is essential to support multihop infrastructure-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-vehicle data delivery in vehicular networks as disruption tolerant networks. Through simulation, it is shown that our two-way link delay model is more accurate than the legacy two-way link delay model.