Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs

Al-Kubati, Gubran; Al-Dubai, Ahmed; Mackenzie, Lewis; Pezaros, Dimitrios

Abstract

Intelligent Transportation Systems have been instrumental in reshaping transportation towards safer roads, seamless logistics, and digital business-oriented services under the umbrella of smart city platforms. Broadcasting transmission is an essential operational technique that serves a broad range of applications which demand different restrictive QoS provisioning levels. Although broadcast communication has been investigated widely in highway vehicular networks, it is undoubtedly still a challenge in the urban environment due to the obstacles. In this paper, we propose the Road-Topology based Broadcast Protocol (RTBP) is proposed, a distance and contention-based forwarding scheme suitable for both urban and highway vehicular environments. RTBP aims at assigning the highest forwarding priority to a car, called a mobile repeater, having the greatest capability to send the packet in multiple directions. Realistic experimental environments are used to test the performance against well-known protocols. The results show that RTBP can reduce latency, increase reachability and save system resources.

Citation

Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2014, April). Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs. Presented at IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014)
• Start Date: Apr 6, 2014
• End Date: Apr 9, 2014
• Acceptance Date: Jun 9, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Nov 20, 2014
• Publication Date: Jun 9, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jul 29, 2014
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series ISSN: 1558-2612
• Book Title: 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2014.6952857
• Keywords: Intelligent transportation systems (ITS), VANET, Inter-vehicle communication, Vehicular urban topology, Broadcast, Contention-based forwarding
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6924