On the Communication Strategies in Heterogeneous Internet of Vehicles

Abstract

Internet of Vehicle (IoV) is a keystone in establishing smart cities IoT applications. In such highly connected network, embedded wireless communication technologies are used to facilitate the different Vehicule-to-X communications. To do so, mainly two technologies are used (i) short range communication such as DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications), and (ii) cellular long-range communication including LTE (Long Term Evolution). Where DSRC can ensure the delay-sensitive safety application, LTE-based communications are in charge of ensuring the remaining applications. In this paper, we design a new real-time data exchange protocol in IoV, Our protocol called Efficient Real-Time protocol in IoV (ERTP-IoV). Involves both both DSRC and LTE technologies for short range and long-range communications, respectively. Simulations results, in real urban environments, will be presented later to evaluate the performance of our protocol, as compared to other existing protocols.