Channel capacity optimization scheme for safety applications in vehicular ad hoc networks

Summary Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have attracted significant attention due to their safety, traffic management, and infotainment applications. However, vehicular communication suffers from network congestion caused by high vehicle density, which raises numerous challenges for efficiently disseminating emergency messages in vehicular safety applications. This paper aims to solve the problem of capacity optimization of the control channel (CCH) during the delivery of emergency messages. Hence, we propose a novel channel capacity optimization scheme for safety application (CCOSSA). The performance of the CCOSSA scheme is evaluated by performing comprehensive traffic and network simulations regarding various parameters such as the probability of reception, channel busy time (CBT) ratio, and average delay. CCOSSA scheme is compared with the state‐of‐the‐art schemes under varying vehicle density and distance from the source in which the proposed scheme shows an improvement in the performance.