Modeling Efficient and Effective Communications in VANET through Population Protocols

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) enable a countless set of next-generation applications thanks to the technological progress of the last decades. These applications rely on the assumption that a simple network of vehicles can be extended with more complex and powerful network infrastructure, in which several Road Side Units (RSUs) are employed to achieve application-specific goals. However, this assumption is not always satisfied as in many real-world scenarios it is unfeasible to have a conspicuous deployment of RSUs, due to both economic and environmental constraints. With the aim to overcome this limitation, in this paper we investigate how the only Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications can be effectively exploited to share data among the vehicles about an event of interest, such as vehicular traffic. In this sense, we propose a novel communication schema based on the Population Protocol model that allows vehicles to be efficiently updated about a given event. Experimental analysis aims to evaluate the performance of the proposed schema, while also highlighting the benefits it might bring in VANETs applications.

Meeting Name

7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2021 (2021: Aug. 23-27, Irvine, CA)

Department(s)

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

Population Protocols; VANET; Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-166541252-0

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

27 Aug 2021

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