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Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs

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

Authors

Gubran Al-Kubati

Lewis Mackenzie

Dimitrios Pezaros



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). Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs. In 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2014.6952857

Conference Name IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014)
Conference Location Istanbul, Turkey
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