Traffic congestion estimation in vANETs and its application to information dissemination

  • Authors:

  • Rayman Preet Singh;Arobinda Gupta

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, WB, India;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, WB, India

  • Venue:
  • ICDCN'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Distributed computing and networking
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Traffic congestion estimation in vehicular ad hoc networks can have many interesting applications. In this paper, we propose two measures of traffic congestion around a vehicle suited for different applications. A scheme for a vehicle to estimate congestion around it is proposed and evaluated through simulations. We also show an application of the estimated congestion for information dissemination to achieve high coverage while sending much less number of redundant messages compared to a flooding based scheme.