An Efficient And Robust Protocol To Disseminate Data In Highway Environments With Different Traffic Conditions

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) are a specific type of moving networks in which the nodes are vehicles with processing, storage and wireless communication capacity. VANETs face a number of challenges in terms of data dissemination due to the volatile density of vehicles and frequent changes in the network topology induced by the high mobility of the vehicles and of short-range communications. The envisaged applications, as well as some inherent characteristics of the VANETs render the data dissemination an essential service and a challenging task in these networks. Many data dissemination protocols have been proposed in the literature, nevertheless, most of such protocols do not deal simultaneously with the problems of broadcast storm and network partition. To face such problems, we propose a new data dissemination protocol in vehicular networks named DRIFT, which operates in highway environments. The DRIFT eliminates the broadcast storm problem and maximizes the data dissemination in partitioned networks with little delay and low overhead. When compared with four known solutions, we show that our proposal for data dissemination executes it with higher efficiency than other protocols, exceeding them in different scenarios in all the undertaken evaluations.CAPES; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior; FAPESP; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Wang, Y., Li, F., Vehicular ad hoc networks (2009) Guide to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Ser. Computer Communications and Networks, pp. 503-525Villas, L.A., Ramos, H.S., Boukerche, A., Guidoni, D.L., Araujo, R.B., Loureiro, A.A., An effcient and robust data dissemination protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks (2012) Prceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Peiformance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks, pp. 39-46. , New York, NY, USA: ACMNi, S.-Y., Tseng, Y.-C., Chen, Y.-S., Sheu, J.-P., The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network (1999) Prceedings of the 5th Annual ACMIIEEE Interational Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Ser. MobiCom '99. ACM, pp. 151-162Chen, Z.D., Kung, H., Vlah, D., Ad hoc relay wireless networks over moving vehicles on highways (2001) Proceedings of the 2Nd ACM Interational Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking &ampComputing, Ser. MobiHoc '01, pp. 247-250. , New York, NY, USA: ACMWisitpongphan, N., Tonguz, O., Parikh, J., Mudalige, P., Bai, F., Sadekar, Y., Broadcast storm mitigation techniques in vehicular ad hoc networks (2007) IEEE Wireless Communications, 14 (6), pp. 84-94Bai, F., Krishnamachari, B., Spatio-temporal variations of vehicle trafc in VANET s: Facts and implications (2009) ACM Interational Workshop on VehiculAr InterNETworking (VANET '09), pp. 43-52Viriyasitavat, W., Bai, F., Tonguz, O., UV-CAST: An urban vehicular broadcast protocol (2010) IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC ']0), pp. 25-32Chen, Y.-S., Lin, Y.-W., Lee, S.-L., A mobicast routing protocol in vehicular ad-hoc networks (2009) GLOBECOM'09, pp. 1-6Villas, L., Boukerche, A., Araujo, R., Loureiro, A., Ueyama, J., Network partition-aware geographical data dissemination (2013) Communications (ICC), 2013 IEEE Interational Conference on, pp. 1439-1443Kim, T.-H., Hong, W.-K., Kim, H.-C., Lee, Y.-D., An efective data dissemination in vehicular ad-hoc network (2007) Ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5200, pp. 295-304. , Berlin/Heidelberg: SpringerTonguz, O., Wisitpongphan, N., Bai, F., Dv-cast: A distributed vehicular broadcast protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks (2010) Wireless Communications, IEEE, 17 (2), pp. 47-57Bakhouya, M., Gaber, J., Lorenz, P., An adaptive approach for information dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks (2011) Joural of Network and Computer Applications, , In Press, Uncorrected ProofVarga, A., Hornig, R., An overview of the OMNeT++ simulation environment (2008) Interational Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems & Workshops (Simutools '08), pp. 1-10Sommer, C., German, R., Dressler, F., Bidirectionally coupled network and road trafc simulation for improved IVC analysis (2011) IEEE Trnsactions on Mobile Computing, 10 (1), pp. 3-15Behrisch, M., Bieker, L., Erdmann, J., Krajzewicz, D., SUMO-simulation of urban mobility: An overview (2011) Interational Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL '11), pp. 63-6