A beaconing-based roadside services discovery protocol for vehicular ad hocnetworks

Abstract

Recently, research on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has gained momentum all over the world. These emerging networks promise to make our driving experience more efficient, safer, comfortable, and enjoyable. VANETs have the potential to support a wide range of interesting applications. One such promising application area is the discovery of roadside services on the highways. Drivers need an efficient way to find these services during their journeys. However, due to the unique features of VANETs, the design and implementation of such applications is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an application layer beaconing-based roadside services discovery protocol (RSDP). The RSDP is a lightweight, beacon-based protocol, which uses store-carry-and-response technique and opportunistic vehicleto-vehicle communication. Our solution is efficient for business owners, as the vehicles move from one place to another to carry service advertisements and opportunistically forward them to other vehicles upon request. Our system architecture is fully based on the VANET standard protocols stack. We performed extensive simulations to evaluate the performance of RSDP in a multilane highway scenario. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution in terms of services discovery.

DyTE: An Effective Routing Protocol for VANET in Urban Scenarios

“…Higher RF value routes are selected as reliable paths. Roadside Service Discovery Protocol (RSDP) [25] proposed an application layer beaconing-based protocol to address the problem of service discovery upon request. Velocity-aided routing protocol [26] works on the principle of predicting the moving behavior of mobile nodes.…”

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“…Additionally, the vehicles are able to communicate with the roadside infrastructure through Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication. In V2I communication, the Road Side Unit (RSU) provides the services of a base station and it works as a fixed infrastructure (Ullah et al, 2019). Even though a great quantity of both safety and non-safety applications are proposed for VANET, most of them do not give proper attention to the use of software architecture.…”