Improvement of connectivity between infrastructure and consumer devices for infotainment services

The robust reception of network parameters is a very important issue for the successful deployment of mobile infotainment services, particularly in fast-moving environments. An infrastructure broadcasts service access-related messages to consumer devices. These access messages critically affect the connectivity between the consumer devices and service providers. This paper proposes an algorithm to increase the connectivity by collaborating consumer devices to share access information messages. The consumer device that receives the access message retransmits the message by attached it to its beacon message. This is performed only when there are neighboring consumer devices that did not receive the message. This paper also proposes an extended beacon message for this purpose. The proposed algorithm was evaluated with computer simulations.