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Information Hovering applies in many applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, where useful information needs to be made available to all vehicles within a confined geographical area for a specific time interval. A straightforward approach is to have all vehicles within the hovering area exchange messages with each other. However, this method does not guarantee that all vehicles within the hovering...
A Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) not only experiences highly mobile and frequently disconnected, but may also have to deal with rapid changes of network topologies, especially when accidents and road traffic jams happen. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this issue. Due to the intermittent connectivity in VANET, we adopt the idea of carry and forward, where a moving vehicle carries...
Public acceptance, and thus the economical success of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), is highly dependent on the quality of deployed privacy mechanisms. Neither users nor operators should be able to track a given individual. One approach to facilitate this is the usage of pseudonym pools, which allow vehicles to autonomously switch between different identities. We extend this scheme with that...
In this paper we introduce a new geocasting concept to target vehicles based on where they will be in the direct future, in stead of their current position. We refer to this concept as constrained geocast. This may be useful in situations where vehicles have interdependencies based on (future) maneuvers. We have developed a first version of such a protocol in the context of an automated merging application,...
Traffic congestion is a very serious problem in large cities. With the number of vehicles increasing rapidly, especially in cities whose economy is booming, the situation is getting even worse. In this paper, by leveraging the techniques of Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) we present a dynamic navigation protocol called VAN for individual vehicles to find the shortest-time paths toward their given...
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) have the potential to optimize traffic in modern urban areas, reduce congestions and pollution, and increase passenger safety and comfort. Applications designed for such networks pose new security constraints. The mobile devices have limited resources to spare, and the network connectivity is reduced because of the mobility of cars. We present a security protocol...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are emerging as a new network environment for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In many applications envisaged for VANETs, traffic information needs to be disseminated to relevant vehicles during a duration of time. Here we present a model of warning message dissemination in VANETs. The idea in our model is that vehicles on a stretch of roads carry warning...
Many applications and protocols are planned for the so-called Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Most of them are supposed to work in dynamic networks, such as the vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). However, designing and studying distributed applications and protocols in such networks is not easy. Analytical studies suffer from the lack of pertinent models. Simulations are often far from reality...
Reliable broadcasting in vehicular ad hoc networks is challenging due to its unique characteristics including intermittent connectivity and various vehicular scenarios (car traffic is possibly very dense in urban areas or very sparse on highways). In this paper, we propose a new reliable broadcast protocol which is suitable for such characteristics. To address the issue of various vehicular scenarios,...
In this paper, we propose SBRM (Score-Based Routing Mechanism), a hybrid forwarding protocol based on the use of a modified contention-based forwarding coupled with carry then forward mechanism. Our solution combines different forwarding schemes and takes profit from advantages of each mechanism. Every node calculates its own Score to decide if it will be the next forwarder. The Score computation...
With the adoption of state-of-the-art telecommunication technologies for sensing and collecting traffic related information, Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) have emerged as a new application scenario that is envisioned to revolutionize the human driving experiences and traffic flow control systems. To avoid any possible malicious attack and resource abuse, employing a digital signature scheme is...
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