Design and Performance Evaluation of Priority Vehicle for Emergency Services in VANET

Abstract

Today's era is the era of fastest speed considering from the evolution of wheel. In the process of development, there has been a drastic increase in the speed as well as the number of vehicles. With the increase in number of vehicles there the aroused the need for Intelligent Transport Scenario with efficiency in terms of reduced travel time, zero congestion (traffic jams), etc. Thus the way for using intelligent traffic system got fulfilled in the form Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET). The use of VANET include the communication between the vehicular nodes to circulate information like speed, destination of a node, proposed way, etc. to other nodes. In all the applications related to Vehicular Ad Hoc Network include traffic management, traffic bypassing, etc. The other cited application of VANET that is coming into light is in Emergency services. In addition to the use of siren as in ambulance, fire trucks, police cars, etc. there can be use of communication between the emergency vehicle and other vehicles so that other vehicles can be warned about presence of emergency vehicle. In this paper, the VANET scenario has been simulated wherein the emergency vehicle communicates with other vehicles. The simulation has been carried out using MOVE, Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) and Network Simulator (NS2).