FROV: a distributed broadcast protocol for VANET experimental results

Author

Amoroso, Alessandro ; Gandolfi, Luca ; Grassilli, Simone ; Roccetti, Marco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

We present a distributed fast protocol for broadcast in ad hoc vehicular networks, and the results of a set of experiments that we carried to test it. Our proposal, called FROV, gains optimal performance in very reasonable real scenarios. These scenario are challenging and were not extensively studied in literature. In particular, we consider individual and variable transmission ranges of the vehicles and asymmetrical communications between them. Our proposal does not require any global knowledge, and exploits the locality of the data and the computations. FROV is scalable with respect to both the length of the road and the number of participating vehicles. In addition, FROV tolerates faults and changes of membership of the participants set. The results we gained from our experiments confirmed the properties of FROV and suggested the right parameters to fine tuning the protocol.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; broadcasting; fault tolerance; routing protocols; FROV; VANET; ad hoc vehicular networks; asymmetrical communications; distributed broadcast protocol; fault tolerance; fine tuning; Broadcasting; Computer science; Performance gain; Proposals; Protocols; Relays; Road vehicles; Safety; Testing; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra Modern Telecommunications & Workshops, 2009. ICUMT '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3942-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3941-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUMT.2009.5345475

Filename

5345475