Traffic Aware Data Gathering Protocol for VANETs

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) are a challenging yet active research area. It offers a wide range of applications, including Intelligent Transport System (ITS), effective road traffic monitoring, efficient traffic flow and road safety applications. During real-time data gathering for emergency scenarios, the fixed silent segments cause a problem for smooth communication. Moreover, the critical ITS operations may be delayed due to this problem. This paper proposes a Real-Time Traffic-Aware Data Gathering Protocol (TDG) where the dynamic segmentation switching is adopted to handle the communication limitations. TDG is lightweight and dynamically designed for collecting and forwarding data packets based on current and rapid evolving traffic conditions. The primary objective is to reduce network and data communication overhead to incorporate real-time data collection time constraints. TDG implements a data aggregation scheme for data analysis to fetch information based on location, speed, vehicle id and neighbour count. Moreover, a data extraction scheme is implemented to increase data retrieval and data utilization effectiveness in an intelligent way at the base station. Extensive simulation and evaluation results validate that our proposed solution outperforms existing data gathering protocols in effectiveness, efficiency, delay, communication overhead and data transmission rate.

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