A distance-based directional broadcast protocol for urban vehicular ad hoc network

Da Li, Hongyu Huang, Xu Li, Minglu Li, Feilong Tang

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Abstract

The topology of a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) changes rapidly due to high-speed movement of vehicles, so traditional mobile ad hoc network (MANET) broadcast protocol may not work efficiently in VANET. This paper proposes a distance-based broadcast protocol called Efficient Directional Broadcast (EDB) for VANET using directional antennas. In EDB, only the furthest receiver is responsible to forward the packet in the opposite direction where the packet arrives. Besides, a directional repeater located at the intersection helps disseminating the packets to the vehicles on other road segments of different directions. We evaluate the performance of EDB based on a real mobility model generated by live GPS data of taxis in the city of Shanghai. The result shows that EDB is effective and favorable for VANET.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2007
Pages1520-1523
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2007 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 21 Sep 200725 Sep 2007

Publication series

Name2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2007

Conference

Conference2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period21/09/0725/09/07

Keywords

  • Broadcast
  • Directional antenna
  • Mobility model
  • SUVnet
  • VANET

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