Service-Centric Heterogeneous Vehicular Network Modeling for Connected Traffic Environments.

Ahmad M Khasawneh,Aanchal Khatri,Maryam Altalhi,Rabah Alshboul,Omprakash Kaiwartya,Waheeb Abu-Ulbeh,Geetika Aggarwal,Mamoun Abu Helou

doi:10.3390/s22031247

Abstract

Heterogeneous vehicular communication on the Internet of connected vehicle (IoV) environment is an emerging research theme toward achieving smart transportation. It is an evolution of the existing vehicular ad hoc network architecture due to the increasingly heterogeneous nature of the various existing networks in road traffic environments that need to be integrated. The existing literature on vehicular communication is lacking in the area of network optimization for heterogeneous network environments. In this context, this paper proposes a heterogeneous network model for IoV and service-oriented network optimization. The network model focuses on three key networking entities: vehicular cloud, heterogeneous communication, and smart use cases as clients. Most traffic-related data–oriented computations are performed at cloud servers for making intelligent decisions. The connection component enables handoff-centric network communication in heterogeneous vehicular environments. The use-case-oriented smart traffic services are implemented as clients for the network model. The model is tested for various service-oriented metrics in heterogeneous vehicular communication environments with the aim of affirming several service benefits. Future challenges and issues in heterogeneous IoV environments are also highlighted.

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IntroductionA universal network architecture is being envisioned considering the significant growth in sensor-enabled digital things in our daily life such as smartphones in our hands, vehicles on roads, entertainment devices in homes, and computing systems in offices [1]
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This paper proposes a heterogeneous network model for enabling the Internet of connected vehicles (IoV) framework

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A universal network architecture is being envisioned considering the significant growth in sensor-enabled digital things in our daily life such as smartphones in our hands, vehicles on roads, entertainment devices in homes, and computing systems in offices [1]. This global network architecture leverages most of the existing networks. The Internet of connected vehicles (IoV) is a heterogeneous network that has evolved from the existing ad hoc network–oriented vehicular communication It integrates different vehicular networks in road traffic environments (i.e., vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to–roadside unit (V2R), vehicle-to–in vehicle sensors (V2S), vehicle-to–mobile infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to–personal device (V2P)-enabled vehicular networks) [3,4].

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