Vulnerable road user (VRU) safety services require low-latency and reliable communication. Wi-Fi Aware (Neighbor Awareness Networking, NAN) enables infrastructure-independent proximity messaging, but repeated slot negotiations can incur high slot-matc...
Vulnerable road user (VRU) safety services require low-latency and reliable communication. Wi-Fi Aware (Neighbor Awareness Networking, NAN) enables infrastructure-independent proximity messaging, but repeated slot negotiations can incur high slot-matching latency when availability slots do not intersect.
This thesis proposes Dense Availability Advertisement (DAA), a DDPG-based scheme that dynamically selects the number of advertised slots k_tto reduce slot-matching latency while considering control overhead. Using an ns-3/OpenGym co-simulation (100 m × 100 m, 50 mobile nodes), DAA reduces average latency from 668.8 ms to 400.9 ms (max: 709.2→493.6 ms) in the no-interference case, with increased NAN frame size (900 bytes to ~1,270–2,280 bytes). With six interfering APs (2.4/5 GHz), DAA maintains higher success rates (94%–97%) than the Baseline (37%–77%), indicating improved latency and reliability under coexistence.