Transmission Opportunities: A New Approach to Improve Quality in V2V Networks

Table 4

Output files obtained from the simulation process and applied to calculate the outcomes of this paper.

Output file	Source	Contained data	Objective	Section
Connectivity logs	Simulation	Up and down connection times between vehicles	To calculate when two vehicles contact each other and how long this contact lasts	4.1, 4.2, 5.1, and 5.2
When-how long	This research	Pair of vehicles identification, connection star time, connection time duration, and volume of data at 3 Mbps (i.e., from IEEE 802.11p)	To verify if a transmission opportunity is serial or is parallel and to calculate the resource inventory and beacon overhead impact and classify vehicles according to contact time	4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4
Adjacency logs	Simulation	Vehicles intersections in the TVG	To obtain vehicle density hour-by-hour and discuss hourly vehicle movement characteristics and to calculate beacon overhead wasting impact	5.1 and 5.4