Efficient protocols for data packet delivery in Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are crucial to guarantee the correct forwarding of data. However, communication in VANETs is a challenging task not only for the high mobility of the vehicles, but as recent studies have shown, there is a negative impact on protocol performances caused by an obstacle such as another vehicle in the line-of-sight (LOS). Many different routing protocols were presented in the last years, but only few of them were considering the effect of non line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation. In this work, we present a new solution to improve the data packet delivery ratio considering the problems caused by a high mobility and NLOS condition. Our proposal can be integrated in every position-based routing protocol. In fact, our method creates a support context awareness of neighbors before letting the protocol choose the next hop, without interfering with the specific logic. Simulation results of our context-aware version have been compared with the original protocols and with a modified version in accordance with the principle that every violation of LOS involves a discard of the packet: our solution always perform better in terms of packet delivery ratio and delay.
Context-Aware Support for Geographical Routing Protocols / Toccacieli, Jacopo; Boukerche, Azzedine; Corradi, Antonio; Foschini, Luca. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 7417261.1-7417261.6. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference tenutosi a San Diego; United States nel 6 December 2015 through 10 December 2015) [10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7417261].
Context-Aware Support for Geographical Routing Protocols
CORRADI, ANTONIO;FOSCHINI, LUCA
2015
Abstract
Efficient protocols for data packet delivery in Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are crucial to guarantee the correct forwarding of data. However, communication in VANETs is a challenging task not only for the high mobility of the vehicles, but as recent studies have shown, there is a negative impact on protocol performances caused by an obstacle such as another vehicle in the line-of-sight (LOS). Many different routing protocols were presented in the last years, but only few of them were considering the effect of non line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation. In this work, we present a new solution to improve the data packet delivery ratio considering the problems caused by a high mobility and NLOS condition. Our proposal can be integrated in every position-based routing protocol. In fact, our method creates a support context awareness of neighbors before letting the protocol choose the next hop, without interfering with the specific logic. Simulation results of our context-aware version have been compared with the original protocols and with a modified version in accordance with the principle that every violation of LOS involves a discard of the packet: our solution always perform better in terms of packet delivery ratio and delay.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
