Investigation of routing reliability of vehicular ad hoc networks

Eiza, Mahmoud and Ni, Qiang and Owens, Thomas and Min, Geyong (2013) Investigation of routing reliability of vehicular ad hoc networks. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2013: 179. ISSN 1687-1472

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Abstract

In intelligent transportation systems, the cooperation between vehicles and the road side units is essential to bring these systems to fruition. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a promising technology to enable the communications among vehicles on one hand and between vehicles and road side units on the other hand. However, it is a challenging task to develop a reliable routing algorithm for VANETs due to the high mobility and the frequent changes of the network topology. Communication links are highly vulnerable to disconnection in VANETs; hence, the routing reliability of these ever-changing networks needs to be paid special attention. In this paper, we propose a new vehicular reliability model to facilitate the reliable routing in VANETs. The link reliability is defined as the probability that a direct communication link between two vehicles will stay continuously available over a specified time period. Furthermore, the link reliability value is accurately calculated using the location, direction and velocity information of vehicles along the road. We extend the well-known ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol to propose our reliable routing protocol AODV-R. Simulation results demonstrate that AODV-R outperforms significantly the AODV routing protocol in terms of better delivery ratio and less link failures while maintaining a reasonable routing control overhead.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? signal processingcomputer networks and communicationscomputer science applications ??
ID Code:
65743
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Deposited On:
19 Jul 2013 12:25
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Yes
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Published
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10 Jan 2024 00:17