MAC2: Enabling multicasting and congestion control with multichannel transmission for intelligent vehicle terminal in Internet of Vehicles

Internet of Vehicles has become a promising way to realize the evolution from vehicular ad hoc networks and next-generation intelligent transportation system into future autonomous driving scenarios, clean-energy intelligent vehicles, and Smart Cities. However, multicasting service messages on available service channels and periodic exchanges of beacon messages on control channel cause the problem of efficiently scheduling those messages via multichannel transmission for intelligent vehicle terminal, to support real-world applications in Internet of Vehicles scenario. In this article, we investigate the intelligent vehicle terminal architecture and, particularly, design the wireless communication board by incorporating multicasting and congestion control modules. Especially, we present a multicast data delivery scheme with random-delay lowest-cost constraint to transfer service messages on service channels. Furthermore, a priority-aware congestion control scheme is also proposed by considering differentiated priorities of beacon messages on control channel, to cope with the congestion problem at bottleneck vehicle node. Based on the proposed schemes, we build up the RanLow (Random-delay Lowest-cost) module and the priority-aware congestion control (PARCEL) module by enabling multicasting and congestion control together in wireless communication board of the intelligent vehicle terminal architecture. Finally, the experimental results and comparison show that our devised RanLow module and PARCEL module are feasible and more efficient than existing schemes.