Delay-bounded data gathering in urban vehicular sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Claudio E. Palazzi;Fabio Pezzoni;Pedro M. Ruiz

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata, Universití degli Studi di Padova, via Trieste, 63 - 35131 Padova, Italy;CNR-IIT, via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy;Departamento de Ingeniería y las Comunicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo - 30100 Murcia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Vehicular sensor networks are an emerging network paradigm, suitable for various applications in vehicular environment making use of vehicles' sensors as data sources and Inter-Vehicle Communication systems for the transmissions. We present a solution, based on vehicular sensor networks, for gathering data from a certain geographic area while satisfying with a specific delay bound. The method leverages the time interval during which the query is active in order to make the gathering process efficient, properly alternating data muling and multi-hop forwarding strategies like in delay-bounded routing protocols. Simulations show that our proposed solution succeeds in performing efficient data gathering outperforming other solutions.