The use of IEEE 802.11p for supporting
intelligent transportation systems (ITS) allows a wide
spectrum of applications providing vehicle occupants useful
information related to public safety and road efficiency.
The Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment (WAVE)
standard is specifically tailored for delivering safety and
multimedia messages in a highly dynamic vehicular
communication environment.
Such dynamic characteristics along with the delay critical nature of safety services turn the medium access
control protocol (MAC) timings very important. Therefore,
it becomes of great interest to analyze a major performance
metric, the end-to-end delay.