Vehicles In Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks Research Articles

Fog computing for vehicular Ad-hoc networks: paradigms, scenarios, and issues

Vehicular Ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are kinds of mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANETs), which consist of mobile vehicles with on-board units (OBUs) and roadside units (RSUs). With the rapid development of computation and communication technologies, peripheral or incremental changes in VANETs evolve into a revolution in process. Cloud computing as a solution has been deployed to satisfy vehicles in VANETs which are expected to require resources (such as computing, storage and networking). Recently, with special requirements of mobility, location awareness, and low latency, there has been growing interest in research into the role of fog computing in VANETs. The merging of fog computing with VANETs opens an area of possibilities for applications and services on the edge of the cloud computing. Fog computing deploys highly virtualized computing and communication facilities at the proximity of mobile vehicles in VANET. Mobile vehicles in VANET can also demand services of low-latency and short-distance local connections via fog computing. This paper presents the current state of the research and future perspectives of fog computing in VANETs. Moreover, we discuss the characteristics of fog computing and services based on fog computing platform provided for VANETs. In this paper, some opportunities for challenges and issues are mentioned, related techniques that need to be considered have been discussed in the context of fog computing in VANETs. Finally, we discuss about research directions of potential future work for fog computing in VANETs. Within this article, readers can have a more thorough understanding of fog computing for VANETs and the trends in this domain.

Overview of security Attacks in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)

Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) are the promising approach to provide safety and other beneficial applications to the drivers as well as passengers. It is recognized as an essential component of intelligent transport system. In this paper, we have discussed about some security attacks in vehicular Ad hoc Network. We have also discussed about some solutions that can be implemented against these attacks. Life saving characteristics of VANET has attracted the industry and researchers. In VANET vehicles are nodes so they have no fixed infrastructure. It serves safe and non safe application in wireless medium which makes it venerable to several attacks. Keywords: VANET characteristics, Overview of attacks, Solutions.

A Hierarchical Link Scheme in Multi-Hop VANETs with Delay Analysis for Congestion Scenario

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) as a part of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are a new perspective to settle the traffic problem. Because of the high velocity, variational topology and such other characters, the link between VANETs and road side unit (RSU) is unstable. Besides, on account of the high cost of RSU, some places can’t be covered completely which make the Internet accessing difficult and accessing delay long. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical link scheme to help vehicles access the Internet based on delay analysis for congestion scenario. We select some moving accessing help points (AHPs) from vehicles in VANETs. Two different hierarchical schemes under the circumstances of whole road covered or not are proposed. When the RSUs are enough to cover the whole road fully, we propose the inward progressive hierarchical method. When the RSUs are not enough to cover the whole road, we propose the outward extend hierarchical method. According to the delay analysis, we can get the optimal hierarchy number. This hierarchical link scheme can decrease delay and make all vehicles access the Internet with delay guarantee. The simulation results indicate that our proposed hierarchical link scheme in VANETs can decrease the link delay effectively.

Delay Analysis of Network Coded Video Streams in VANETs

Video is a significant medium in data communication through which enormous information could be conveyed in less time. Video Streaming helps us play the streamed data immediately without waiting for the entire file to get downloaded. When the quality of service of video streaming is considered, delay and jitter act as very important parameters, as video streams received late cannot be played and become useless hence wasting the network resources. In Vehicular Adhoc Networks, a special type of Mobile Adhoc Networks, the two possible usages of video streams are in infotainment applications and in the safety applications. In either case, these parameters play a major role. One of the vital techniques that are applied to reduce the delay encountered is Network coding. This paper simulates the transfer of the video streams from one vehicle to another in a group of vehicles in Vehicular Adhoc Networks. Network coding is applied on the video packets here. The routes are established with routing protocols OLSR, AODV and DSDV in the above mentioned scenarios. Node density is varied and these parameters of interest are monitored and analyzed.

Data relationship degree–based clustering data aggregation for VANET

Data aggregation is one of the major needs of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) due to the constraints of resources. Data aggregation in VANET can reduce the data redundancy in the process of data gathering and thus conserving the bandwidth. In realistic applications, it is always important to construct an effective route strategy that optimises not only communication cost but also the aggregation cost. Data aggregation at the cluster head by individual vehicle causes flooding of the data, which results in maximum latency and bandwidth consumption. Another approach of data aggregation in VANET is sending local representative data based on spatial correlation of sampled data. In this article, we emphasise on the problem that recent spatial correlation data models of vehicles in VANET are not appropriate for measuring the correlation in a complex and composite environment. Moreover, the data represented by these models is generally inaccurate when compared to the real data. To minimise this problem, we propose a group-based data aggregation method that uses data relationship degree (DRD). In the proposed approach, DRD is a spatial relationship measurement parameter that measures the correlation between a vehicle’s data and its neighbouring vehicles’ data. The DRD clustering method where grouping of vehicle’s data is done based on the available data and its correlation is presented in detail. Results prove that the representative data using proposed approach have a low distortion and provides an improvement in packet delivery ratio and throughput (up to of 10.84% and 24.82% respectively) as compared to the other state-of-the-art solutions like Cluster-Based Accurate Syntactic Compression of Aggregated Data in VANETs.

An efficient energy‐aware predictive clustering approach for vehicular ad hoc networks

SummaryWith an emergence of information and communication technologies, there is an increase in the demands of providing safety and comfort to the passengers during their mobility on the road. These demands can be fulfilled by one of the most popular networks of its type—vehicular adhoc networks (VANETs). As vehicles in VANETs are constrained with respect to the available resources such as computation and storage, lot of energy is consumed to perform a number of complex operations, which may lead to the emission of harmful CO2 emission that effect the global warming system. Moreover, because of high velocity led by constant topological changes, it is a challenging task to maintain quality of service with respect to parameters such as high throughput, and minimum end‐to‐end delay. Hence, an intelligent approach is required to optimize the various complex operations in this environment, which may led to the minimum emission of CO2 and other gasses. To address these issues, this paper proposes an efficient energy‐aware predictive clustering scheme for vehicles. Efficient algorithms are designed for future mobility predictions and average variations of vehicles on the road. The algorithms estimate the clustering duration and total vehicles in the cluster. The performance of the designed algorithms is studied using extensive simulations by varying the number of vehicles and cluster durations in comparison with existing benchmarked scheme in the literature. The results obtained show that the proposed scheme is superior in comparison with the existing scheme of its category. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

QoS-Aware Data Dissemination for Dense Urban Regions in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

With an evolution of 5G and related technologies, there is a need of high data rate transfer between different communication objects such as vehicles, sensor nodes, or mesh clients connected to the Internet to maintain Quality of Service (QoS) at various levels. As vehicles in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are mainly used for safety related applications, so there is a need of an efficient QoS-aware data dissemination for various applications in different regions especially in dense urban regions where congestion is one of the major issues. Hence, to address this issue, in this paper, we propose a new mechanism to maintain QoS for data dissemination among the different vehicles in VANETs. An intelligent forwarding mechanism is used by newly defined metric which assigns weights to the different routing paths from source to destination. Separate algorithms are designed for route construction, and maintenance in the proposed scheme. The performance of the proposed scheme is studied by extensive simulations with respect to various metrics such as delay incurred, percentage of active links, and load on the network. The results obtained show that the proposed scheme is better than the other state-of-the-art existing schemes in the literature.

A Noble Routing Protocol for Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs) with Less Routing Overheads

Past few decades have witnessed large increase in number of vehicles on roads due to which the traffic safety needs have also become complex and hence necessary to be taken care of. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are becoming an asset for achieving all these goals. VANETs provide applications like driver assistance, passenger comfort and vehicle safety. Apart from its general characteristics due to the dynamic nature of road environments and traffic patterns, communication linkage among vehicles in VANETs suffers breakage problem hence requires a very reliable routing protocol. To manage the communication efficiently many routing protocols are already available for MANETs which can be further used for routing and communication among vehicles in VANETs, but characteristics of these two networks (VANET and MANET) are very different, so there is requirement to enhance these MANET routing protocols so that those can be used in VANETs. When we use some existing routing protocols in VANET then number of link breakage are surprisingly high because mobility is higher in VANETs as compared to MANETs. So this paper presents advanced version of an existing MANET routing protocol for better performance in VANET environment. The new routing protocol has removed problem of large number of routing error messages which was existing in AODV routing protocol. Protocol proposed in this paper has better results as compared to AODV and paper has also shown results of simulation and also elaborated the findings.

A Survey of Broadcast Protocols for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Vehicular ad-hoc networks have become the most popular application to enhance traffic safety. The traffic safety by disseminating safety messages is considered as one of the most important applications of vehicular ad-hoc networks. Broadcasting is considered as the most suitable communication mechanism to disseminate the safety message in vehicular ad-hoc networks. When an accident happens on a road, the safety message should be broadcasted to all vehicles in the area exposed to potential hazard. Broadcasting is the process in which a source vehicle sends a message to all other vehicles in vehicular ad-hoc networks. The safety message can help human drivers to enable smooth and safe driving by providing the drivers in various risk traffic environments. This paper describes a survey on broadcasting protocols for vehicular ad-hoc networks, and discusses briefly discuss applications of vehicular ad-hoc networks. Classification and comparison of broadcasting protocols are also described from their pros and cons. From the classification and comparison, this survey makes it possible to provide a variety of considerations that are required for designing a new broadcasting protocol in vehicular ad-hoc networks.

English

A Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) is a type of mobile Peer-To-Peer wireless network that allows providing communication among nearby vehicles and between vehicles and nearby fixed roadside equipment. The lack of centralized infrastructure, high node mobility and increasing number of vehicles in VANETs result in several problems discussed in this paper, such as interrupting connections, difficult routing, security of communications and scalability. Existing system for VANET communication is proved to have several drawbacks. We have proposed a mechanism in order to provide secure and efficient communication in VANET environment. We overcome the drawbacks of the existing system by using Malicious Vehicular Analyzer algorithm and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Using these algorithms, malicious messages are identified. It also detects the accident and other problems in the path of the vehicles. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithm is used for stronger security during communication.

PASS: Parking-Lot-Assisted Carpool over Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Information interaction is a crucial part of modern transportation activities. In this paper, we propose the idea of PASS: a parking-lot-assisted carpool method over vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). PASS aims at optimizing transport utilization by the carpooling among car drivers who cover a part of the same traveling route. With wireless device enabled in the vehicle, a user can easily get matched vehicles information and then express his travel demands via radio queries over VANETs to the corresponding driver. The driver can decide whether to provide carpooling services or not. We investigate the main challenges in PASS design, via the parking lot to collect vehicle trajectories, via accelerator sensor to sense vehicle's movement, establish a routing tree to delivery vehicle trajectory information to nearby parking lots, and design a suitable matching scheme to match the target vehicle in VANETs. Finally, simulation results prove that PASS is effective and efficient in carpooling among vehicle drivers.

Multiagent driven dynamic clustering of vehicles in VANETs

Cluster formation in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is a challenging problem due to rapidly changing network topology and frequent network disconnections of vehicles. Dynamic clustering is a technique to form grouping of vehicles on the fly. We propose a multiagent driven dynamic clustering scheme for VANETS on a lane between two intersections by considering vehicle speed, direction, connectivity degree to other vehicles and mobility pattern. The scheme comprises of heavy-weight static and light-weight mobile agents. Initially, cluster members are identified based on vehicle's relative speed and direction for dynamic clustering. Cluster head is selected among the cluster members based on stability metric derived from connectivity degree, average speed and time to leave the road intersection. Cluster head predicts future association of cluster members based on mobility patterns. The announcement of cluster mobility pattern to all cluster members is made by cluster head. The cluster members with similar mobility pattern can reconnect with cluster head after passing an intersection of the lane. We have evaluated the performance and effectiveness of proposed scheme by comparing with an existing clustering scheme. It is observed that proposed scheme performs better than existing stable clustering scheme in terms of cluster formation time, cluster member selection time, cluster head selection time and control overheads.

Intelligent Vehicular Warning System for VANET

The vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) has made significant progress in recent years, attracting a lot of interest from academia and the industry. VANET involves vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications based on a wireless network. V2I refers to the communication between vehicles and infrastructure of roadside unit (RSU), e.g., a base station and access point (AP) connected to the Internet. V2V refers to the direct or multi-hop communications among vehicles in VANET. V2V is efficient and cost effective owing to its short range bandwidth advantage and its ad hoc nature. V2V communications are enabling technologies that enhance the driver’s awareness of nearby vehicular traffic, leading to improved traffic safety and efficiency. The V2V mode provides a communications platform between road vehicles (cars, bikes, scooters, motorcycles, trucks, etc.) without requiring a central control unit. Safety-related V2V applications are enabled via an integrated early warning mechanism. To facilitate safe driving, we propose an Intelligent Vehicular Warning System (IVWS) that sends an immediate warning message in the event of an accident. According to V2V communications, the other cars or vehicles could have enough time to avoid the accident and make an appropriate decision such as slow down, stop, and detour after receiving the urgent warning messages. Furthermore, the local CMS (Changeable Message Sign) can show the accident information for neighbor vehicles when receiving the warning message. To achieve experimental architecture with our proposed IVWS, the robot vehicles have been designed to simulate vehicles on the road. Besides, vehicles also apply ZigBee wireless interface to communicate with each other. The experiment has shown that our proposed intelligent system can initially provide message display and safety driving for vehicles when traffic accident occurred.

Group‐based hybrid authentication scheme for cooperative collision warnings in VANETs

AbstractCooperative collision warnings (CCWs) is one of the important applications of Vehicular Ad‐Hoc Networks (VANETs) where secure and timely delivery of messages to the neighboring vehicles are needed. Secure communication is as important as timely communication to take proper actions in order to avoid collisions and thus prevent fatal accidents. However, security and delay are two competing metrics since security brings additional processing overhead, increasing the packet delays. While symmetric‐key‐based security techniques can be more efficient as opposed to public‐key cryptography (PKC) in terms of delay, they introduce significant key maintenance overheads with the increased number of vehicles in VANETs. To alleviate this overhead and take the advantage of faster processing, we exploit the natural group behavior in CCW applications. We propose a delay efficient authentication scheme for VANETs which is based on group communication. Groups are created and maintained dynamically led by leader vehicles. Since the data communication within the groups will be dominating the overall packet traffic, we utilize symmetric‐key techniques within each group which is handled by the group leader. Group creations on the other hand are less frequent events and thus are done by PKC. We analyzed the security properties of our proposed scheme and tested it with real‐world vehicle data. Simulations results confirmed the efficiency in terms of delay with respect to other existing techniques. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Bluetooth Wireless Monitoring, Managing and Control for Inter Vehicle in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Problem statement: The car users expect more and more accessories available in their cars, but the accessories available needed manage by driver manually and not properly manage by smart system. All these accessories are able to control by user manually using different and standalone controllers. Besides, the controller itself uses RF technology which is not existed in mobile devices. So there is lack of a comprehensive and integrated system to manage, control and monitor all the accessories inside the vehicle by using a personal mobile phone. Design and development of an integrated system to manage and control all kind of inter vehicle accessories, improving the efficiency and functionality of inter vehicle communications for the car users. Approach: The proposed system was based on Microcontroller, Bluetooth and Java technology and in order to achieve the idea of an intelligence car with ability to uses personal mobile hand phone as a remote interface. Development strategies for this innovation are includes two phases: (1) java based application platform-designed and developed for smart phones and PDAs (2) hardware design and implementation of the receiver side-compatible smart system to managing and interconnection between all inside accessories based on monitoring and controlling mechanisms by Bluetooth media. Results: The designed system included hardware and software and the completed prototype had tested successfully on the real vehicles. During the testing stage, the components and devices were connected and implemented on the vehicle and the user by installing the system interface on a mobile phone is able to monitor and manage the vehicle accessories, the efficiency, adaptively and range of functionality of the system has proved with the various car accessories. Conclusion: This study involved design a new system to decrease the hot temperature inside a car that affecting the health of the car driver and the car driver is able to control some of the car accessories by using mobile phone. Once the car was equipped with the Bluetooth module and control system, the car accessories is able to connect with microcontroller and control by the mobile application.

Proving Reliability of Anonymous Information in VANETs

Advances in wireless communications allow setting up communication links between vehicles for the exchange of information between them. Such vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are important to enhance traffic safety since critical environmental conditions, such as road or traffic conditions, can be rapidly exchanged between vehicles in VANETs. However, to be useful for the driver, the information must be reliable, i.e., with great probability, the received information indeed reflects the actual situation. One approach to this is to regard information as reliable if it is confirmed by various sources. To achieve this, messages received must be distinguishable. This may become a threat against the privacy of drivers since by observing messages, vehicles may be traced. In this paper, we address the mentioned problems. We base the reliability of information on the number of different sources that confirmed specific information, and that number must be greater than a given threshold. We address the nontraceability by letting vehicles change their identity frequently. Our approach scales with respect to storage on the vehicle, as well as management of identities at a certification authority.