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Table 1 Major notations

From: Fuzzy logic-based integrity-oriented file transfer for highway vehicular communications

Notation

Definition

\(\mathbb {N}\)

The set of vehicles on the road

\({\vec V}_{i}(t)\)

The velocity vector of vehicle i at time t

\({\vec V}_{j}(t)\)

The velocity vector of vehicle j at time t

\(\vec a_{i}(t)\)

Acceleration vector of vehicle i at time t

γ1,γ2

Random numbers between 0 and 1

d i,j (t0)

Initial distance between i and j

d i,j (t)

Distance between i and j at time t

SD

Safety distance between two adjacent vehicles

V min

Minimum velocity of vehicles

V max

Maximum velocity of vehicles

r

Communication range of vehicles

ρ

Vehicle density

ρ max

Vehicle density during the traffic jam

T i,j

Predicted connection time between i and j

Γ(μ)

Gamma function

Ω

Average received power of received vehicle

N r

Thermal noise power

c k

The kth modulation rate supported by transmitter of vehicle

E(c)

Average transmission rate between two vehicles

s

The size of each file piece

\(\mathbb {M}\)

The set of file pieces

n i

The number of pieces i exactly download from S

\(C_{i,S}^{c}\)

Communication capability between i and S

\(r_{i}^{\textsf {RVF}}\)

Related velocity factor

\(d_{i}^{\textsf {DF}}\)

Distance factor

\(t_{i}^{\textsf {PCTF}}\)

Predicted connection time factor

μ 1

Triangular membership function of input

μ 2

Triangular membership function of output

N c

The size of cluster