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Table 1 List of notations

From: Interference-aware high-throughput channel allocation mechanism for CR-VANETs

Notation

Description

B

Set of licensed channels in the network

W b

Bandwidth of channel b

Set of OBUs registered with an RSU

B i

Set of available licensed channels at OBU i

B ij

B i B j , set of common channels available at i and j

T

Length of scheduling cycle

N i

Set of neighbors of OBU i

\(P_{i}^{tr}\)

Transmission power of an OBU i

D ij

Number of data packets awaited in the queue of OBU i for transmission from OBU i to OBU j

ψ ij

Required data rate for transmission

δ ij

Tolerable maximum transmission delay

Z b

PU idle time at channel b

λ b

PU arrival rate at channel b

\(q_{\textit {ij}}^{b}\)

Transmission quota of OBU pair {i,j} on channel b

\(s_{\textit {ij}}^{b}\)

Success probability of OBU pair {i,j} on channel b

\(R_{\textit {ij}}^{b}\)

Achievable data rate from OBU i to OBU j on channel b

ζ

Medium access delay

\(\text {SINR}_{\textit {ij}}^{b}\)

SINR value between OBU i and OBU j on channel b

L i

Length of the packets at the transmission queue of OBU i

\(\tau _{\textit {ij}}^{b}\)

Required tx time for OBU pair {i,j} on channel b

ρ I

Weight of independent set I

Θ

Set of all maximum independent sets

Set of all OBU pairs requesting transmission

Set of OBUs in the interference range of OBU i

ω(G)

Set of all independent vertices in a conflict graph G