MSc Thesis Proposal Announcement of Pooja Chandrasekharan:"Transmission Power based Congestion Control using Q-Learning algorithm in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET)"

Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:30

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MSc Thesis Proposal by: Pooja Chandrasekharan

 
Date: Thursday, June 1, 2023
Time:  10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Essex Hall, Room 122
 
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Abstract:

To enhance road safety, Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), an emerging wireless technology used for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, are essential components of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). It also provides additional services to vehicles and their users. However, vehicles must balance awareness and congestion control in a dynamic environment to accomplish reliable transmission of basic safety messages (BSMs) and event-driven warnings. The limited channel capacity makes the reliable delivery of BSMs a challenging problem for VANETs. This paper aims to optimize the performance of VANETs by effectively managing channel load and reducing congestion by maintaining channel busy ratio (CBR) near the threshold value of 0.6. This is resolved using a transmission power-based congestion control algorithm that employs a Markov decision process (MDP) and solves it using a Q-Learning algorithm. The algorithm uses varying transmission power levels to lower the channel busy ratio while maintaining high awareness for surrounding vehicles. According to simulation results for various traffic scenarios, the suggested technique chooses a suitable transmission power depending on the present channel circumstances to achieve a balance between awareness and bandwidth usage. The findings show that, for both low and high traffic densities, the proposed strategy reliably maintained the channel load at or near the stipulated level without surpassing it.
 
Keywords: VANET, Congestion Control, Reinforcement Learning, Q-Learning


MSc Thesis Committee:

Internal Reader: Dr. Shafaq Khan   
External Reader: Dr. Animesh Sarker           
Advisor: Dr. Arunita Jaekel


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