Title :
Real-time traffic congestion management and deadlock avoidance for vehicular ad Hoc networks
Author :
Hussain, Syed R. ; Odeh, Ammar ; Shivakumar, Amrut ; Chauhan, Shubhika ; Harfoush, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract :
Traffic congestion is common in heavily populated cities. In this paper, we introduce a novel protocol to guide vehicles to their destinations while managing congestion and avoiding deadlock situations in urban city grids. The protocol relies on vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, infrastructure-to-infrastructure (I2I) communication as well as GPS information to disseminate congestion information to city grid intersections. Our proposal pro-actively aims at avoiding congestion scenarios and reacts to arising congestion in case it happens due to unpredictable events such as collisions. Simulation results reveal that vehicles enjoy reduced travel times even during rush hours and in the presence of collisions.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; telecommunication network management; traffic engineering computing; vehicular ad hoc networks; GPS information; city grid intersections; congestion information; deadlock avoidance; deadlock situations; infrastructure-to-infrastructure communication; real-time traffic congestion management; urban city grids; vehicle-to-infrastructure communication; vehicular ad hoc networks; Cities and towns; Roads; Routing protocols; Simulation; System recovery; Vehicles; Congestion Avoidance; Congestion Detection; Traffic Route Guidance;
Conference_Titel :
High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET-CNS), 2013 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Magosa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2568-1
DOI :
10.1109/HONET.2013.6729791
