Recently, the number of accidents between pedestrian and personal mobility is increasing year after year as the use of personal mobility is increasing. Due to the technological advancement, personal mobility with high speed is being invented even with...
Recently, the number of accidents between pedestrian and personal mobility is increasing year after year as the use of personal mobility is increasing. Due to the technological advancement, personal mobility with high speed is being invented even with a small labor. Furthermore, electric personal mobility using battery and electric motors has appeared. Nowadays, use of personal mobility is becoming a trend. There are electric wheel, electric bicycle and electric scooter. In the case of electric wheel, the movement speed can be up to 30 km/h. In the case of electric bicycle, the speed can be up to 35 km/h. Due to this reason accidents between pedestrians and personal mobility are very dangerous.
In recent years, research of communication-based safety application has been actively pursued to prevent such accidents. Previously I have proposed Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based safety application. In that proposed scheme three channels are used for the communication in BLE, and as it is asynchronous communication the reliability of safety application decreases. There can be high packet collision when there are multiple senders existing nearby. This also makes the reliability of safety application to be decreased. Moreover, as BLE devices send packets based on pure ALOHA there is a high possibility of packet collision.
Therefore, in this paper, enhanced CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access) is proposed to improve the reliability of communication-based safety application using BLE. Furthermore, I also analyze the performance of existing scheme in BLE, existing CSMA and proposed enhanced CSMA through experiments using NS-3 (Network Simulator 3).