Title :
A geocasting application for ambulance service
Author :
Pei-Hsuan Lee ; Tsung-Chuan Huang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract :
Geocasting is a variant of multicasting and a popular mechanism used in vehicular ad hoc networks. To reduce the risk of car accidents and avoid traffic congestions, many application systems in VANETs are designed to transmit traffic messages in a specific geographical area by geocasting. In this paper, a dynamic geocasting algorithm is proposed to notify the vehicles on the road that the ambulance will approach to yield the way and the traffic lights are set to green for the convenience of ambulances to pass.
Keywords :
multicast communication; road safety; road traffic; vehicular ad hoc networks; VANET; ambulance service; car accidents; dynamic geocasting algorithm; multicasting; traffic congestions; traffic messages; vehicular ad hoc networks; Ad hoc networks; Indexes; Mobile computing; Wireless communication; ambulance service; geocasting; vehicular ad hoc network (VANET);
Conference_Titel :
Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
DOI :
10.1109/ICCNC.2014.6785490
