Mobility Management in Vehicular Networks

Abstract

In mobile technology, vehicular network mobility becomes a major issue as the vehicle (node) is continuously in motion. Further, many research groups and telecom communities are working very hard to find solutions to provide robust, efficient and continuous connectivity to the end users in order to provide seamless connectivity. Furthermore, the goal of vehicular networks is to provide connectivity to the internet through which a user can be able to access the internet from anywhere without any geographical limitation and able to support different multimedia applications with high throughput efficiency and quality of service while in motion. Moreover, by the support of different application in vehicular networks enables the user to continuously aware from the traffic situations like accidents, traffic intensity and other useful information. There are two communication scenario vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) network in (VANET). In this report, we have discussed these two scenarios and its existing mobility management schemes. Further, there are some other open issues which are needed to be resolved, the main issues which we discuss is mobility in the vehicular networks and identify the best possible protocols through theoretical analysis.