Car-to-Car Safety Broadcast with Interference using Raptor Codes

Car-to-car safety applications that demand real-time and reliable communications in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) requires a new paradigm of coding techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel coding approach using a systematic Raptor code for car-to-car post-crash warning broadcast applications. A cross-layer simulator model is developed to evaluate the performance of Raptor codes against repetition codes using also multiple antennas spatial diversity techniques. The end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio are used as performance metrics to demonstrate the latency and reliability problems of repetition codes that are addressed using Raptor codes.