Cluster-based multi-hop vehicular communication with multi-metric optimization

Author

Alawi, Mahmoud A. ; Saeed, Rashid A. ; Hassan, Aisha A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., IIUM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

3-5 July 2012

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

27

Abstract

Dead spot and out of coverage problem are serious problems especially in the rural and suburban areas where the network infrastructure is not deployed. In this paper, a new end to end multi hop relay scheme for vehicular communication is proposed to extend the coverage or/and relaxing frequent handoff process. The scheme allows vehicles to continue connected to infrastructure network i.e. UMTS. Relay discovery, relay selection and gateway selection are discussed and examined. The proposed scheme can be implemented on top of any VANET routing protocols. AODV and DSDV were used as underlying protocol to evaluate our scheme. An integrated simulation environment combined of VanetMobiSim and NS2 is used to simulate our proposed scheme. The simplified gateway selection shows the best performance on top of AODV compare to DSDV.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; internetworking; mobility management (mobile radio); routing protocols; vehicular ad hoc networks; AODV; DSDV; NS2; UMTS; VANET routing protocols; VanetMobiSim; cluster-based multhop vehicular communication; gateway selection; handoff process; infrastructure network; multihop relay scheme; multimetric optimization; network infrastructure; relay discovery; relay selection; rural areas; suburban areas; underlying protocol; 3G mobile communication; Logic gates; Measurement; Relays; Routing protocols; Vehicles; UMTS; VANET; heterogeneous network; multi hop relay scheme;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0478-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCE.2012.6271145

Filename

6271145