Coexistence of IEEE 802.11p and the TDMA-based AS-DTMAC Protocol

Advanced vehicular applications such as autonomous driving are leading to a new evolution in vehicular radio access technologies. The Task Group BD on the Next-Generation V2X (NGV) have defined IEEE 802.11bd as the new standard for the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC). Notwithstanding its the promising performances in terms of high reliability, low latency and high throughput, the design must also respect certain specifications, such as coexistence, interoperability, and compatibility with the previous standard. In this article, we study how the IEEE 802.11p protocol could coexist with a TDMA-based protocol named AS-DTMAC, which has recently been proposed to control access in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). We carry out several analyses to show that the two protocols can coexist by several analysis when both are operating simultaneously on the same network. We also propose a modification of AS-DTMAC to handle the situation where both IEEE 802.11p and AS-DTMAC have to send urgent packets.