User/Operator Utility-Based Infrastructure Deployment Strategies for Vehicular Networks

• Published in: 2011 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall) pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Cataldi, P., Harri, J.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-09-2011
• Subjects: Context; Joints; Measurement; Optimization; Roads; Shape; Silicon
• ISBN: 9781424483280; 142448328X
• ISSN: 1090-3038; 2577-2465
• DOI: 10.1109/VETECF.2011.6093125

In this paper, we propose a framework for user/operator utility-based infrastructure deployment in vehicular networks. We extend the well known maximum coverage problem to consider the following four complementary aspects: (i) a non-circular polygon-based coverage representing measured heterogeneous any-directional communication conditions (ii) a generic intensity-based utility function reflecting variations of the intensity of a desired metric over the polygonal area (iii) comparable metrics either by normalizing the utility over the coverage, or by an intensity threshold maintaining a minimal utility regardless of coverage, (iv) a joint user/operator utility optimization minimizing the infrastructure deployment. We finally illustrate the benefits of our framework over related coverage-based approaches in an exemplary study.