Speed adaptive probabilistic broadcast for scalable data dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Moumena Chaqfeh, Abderrahmane Lakas

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    Abstract

    The rapid evolution of wireless communication capabilities and vehicular technology would allow traffic data to be collected and disseminated by travelling vehicles in the near future. Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are self-organizing networks that can support different types of traffic information systems without requiring fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. Since traffic data is of public interest and usually benefits a group of users rather than a specific individual, it is more appropriate to rely on a broadcasting scheme for data dissemination in VANETs. However, broadcasting in dense networks suffers from a high percentage of redundant data that wastes the limited radio channel bandwidth. Moreover, packet collisions may lead to the broadcast storm problem since a large number of vehicles in the same vicinity may rebroadcast the same data nearly simultaneously. A common employed solution to deal with such scalability issues is reducing the percentage of redundant data. This is typically done by selecting only some of the vehicles to relay data packet as opposed to letting every single vehicle rebroadcast it. In this work, we propose involving the high mobility feature of VANETs to improve scalability in data dissemination, by relying on the speed of travelling vehicles to determine the rebroadcasting probability.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIWCMC 2014 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages207-212
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781479909599
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 22 2014
    Event10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2014 - Nicosia, Cyprus
    Duration: Aug 4 2014Aug 8 2014

    Publication series

    NameIWCMC 2014 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

    Other

    Other10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2014
    Country/TerritoryCyprus
    CityNicosia
    Period8/4/148/8/14

    Keywords

    • Data Dissemination
    • Data Redundancy
    • Probabilistic Broadcast
    • Speed Adaptive
    • Traffic Safety
    • Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Science Applications
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Computer Networks and Communications

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