Table 1.

Simulation setup parameters.

Parameter	Value
Number of lanes	4 lanes/direction
Lane width	3 m
Road length	2500 m
Space between vehicles	30 m
Number of vehicles entering highway	4 vehicles/s
Vehicle velocity	65–85 km/h
BSM interval, τ	300 ms
BSM lifetime	2 s
BSM processing time, p	5 ms
BSM size	254 bytes
Buffer capacity	200 pkts
Danger-zone range, rdz	25 m
Data rate	6 Mb/s
Radius of the largest zone, r	300 m
Maximum delay time δ for messages from vehicles in danger-zone	0.1 s