Dominating Sets and Neighbor Elimination-Based Broadcasting Algorithms in Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Multimedia Communications
TrafficView: traffic data dissemination using car-to-car communication
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Analysis and Design of Warning Delivery Service in Intervehicular Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
BPAB: Binary Partition Assisted Emergency Broadcast Protocol For Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
ICCCN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
A new framework of self-organization of vehicular networks
GIIS'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Global Information Infrastructure Symposium
VWCA: An efficient clustering algorithm in vehicular ad hoc networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
An optimal 1D vehicular accidentwarning algorithm for realistic scenarios
ISCC '10 Proceedings of the The IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications
Communication protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
Video Streaming Distribution in VANETs
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Dynamic backbone for fast information delivery invehicular ad hoc networks: an evaluation study
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
Delay-bounded data gathering in urban vehicular sensor networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Challenges of intervehicle ad hoc networks
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
A Region-Based Clustering Mechanism for Channel Access in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Efficient Data Propagation in Traffic-Monitoring Vehicular Networks
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
TDMA cluster-based MAC for VANETs (TC-MAC)
WOWMOM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Thirteenth International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM)
Mobile Networks and Applications
Reverse back-off mechanism for safety vehicular ad hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
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Nowadays, most of the applications proposed for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) rely on geocasting, i.e. on the possibility to identify the end-points of the communication through their geographic coordinates instead of their network addresses. At the same time, each vehicular application has its own set of Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements which must be guaranteed by the underlying dissemination protocol. This has lead to a proliferation of geocast protocols proposed in the literature of VANETs, usually based on reactive or proactive approaches. However, most of these solutions are tailored for a specific application (e.g. active-safety applications), and thus might not be suitable for generic deployments of VANETs. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Backbone Assisted (DBA) MAC protocol as a general solution to support geocast communication on highway scenarios for different classes of vehicular applications. DBA-MAC combines the benefits of proactive and reactive schemes through a cross-layer architecture which includes: (i) a novel distributed clustering algorithm and (ii) a fast information dissemination mechanism. First, DBA-MAC creates and maintains a virtual backbone of vehicles inside the highway scenario. Then, it provides fast dissemination of geocast messages through a combination of contention-free and contention-based forwarding mechanisms at the link layer. We provide a complete and exhaustive evaluation of the DBA-MAC scheme under different application requirements and network load conditions. We propose three metrics for the selection of backbone members which provide different characteristics in terms of delivery delay and ratio, and we analyze their performance with both analytical models and simulation studies. Then, we evaluate the performance of DBA-MAC compared to traditional geocast schemes for three classes of vehicular applications: active-safety applications, traffic-information applications, multimedia streaming (audio/video) applications. The simulation results confirm that DBA-MAC is able to greatly reduce the delivery delay for active-safety applications, and to adequately meet the requirements of multimedia applications for VANETs.