A New Spectrum Management Scheme for Road Safety in Smart Cities

Alsarhan, Ayoub; Al-Dubai, Ahmed Y.; Min, Geyong; Zomaya, Albert Y.; Bsoul, Mohammad

Abstract

Traffic management in roads is one of the major challenges faced in developing efficient intelligent transportation systems. Recently, wireless networks have received significant attention for tackling this challenge. However, wireless technologies face the well-known spectrum scarcity problem due to the explosive demand for radio resources. To overcome this challenge, this study presents a novel intelligent traffic control system, utilising the unused spectrum. Unlike existing works, the spectrum owners in this study hire free spectrum to drivers. The hired spectrum is deployed to build a short-range cost-effective wireless communication for monitoring traffic and enabling drivers to exchange warning messages, and thus enhancing road safety. Our objectives include minimizing crash probability, utilizing unused spectrum, and enabling spectrum owners to generate extra revenue. Numerical analysis demonstrates the capability of our approach to minimize the crash probability among vehicles under different operating road conditions.

Citation

Alsarhan, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Min, G., Zomaya, A. Y., & Bsoul, M. (2018). A New Spectrum Management Scheme for Road Safety in Smart Cities. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(11), 3496-3506. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2784548

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 2, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Feb 15, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Deposit Date: Dec 7, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 7, 2017
• Journal: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Print ISSN: 1524-9050
• Electronic ISSN: 1558-0016
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 3496-3506
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2784548
• Keywords: Intelligent transportation systems, Dynamic spectrum access, Road traffic control, Crash probability, Wireless mesh networks.
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1016062
• Publisher URL: https://www.ieee-itss.org/
• Contract Date: Dec 7, 2017