A New Spectrum Management Scheme for Road Safety in Smart Cities

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

doi:10.1109/TITS.2017.2784548

A New Spectrum Management Scheme for Road Safety in Smart Cities

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

Authors

Ayoub Alsarhan

Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai A.Al-Dubai@napier.ac.uk
Professor

Geyong Min

Albert Y. Zomaya

Mohammad Bsoul

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/

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