TRAC: an architecture for real-time dissemination of vehicular traffic information

  • Authors:
  • Shravan Rayanchu;Sulabh Agarwal;Arunesh Mishra;Suman Banerjee;Samrat Ganguly

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin Madison, WI;University of Wisconsin Madison, WI;University of Wisconsin Madison, WI;University of Wisconsin Madison, WI;NEC Labs, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Traffic congestion is a major cause of concern in many cities. A real-time information dissemination system announcing current traffic conditions to travelers is increasingly becoming a necessity in this context. The recent DSRC research initiative[1] envisions a deployment of DSRC access points (APs) along the road side to enable Vehicle to Roadside Communication (VRC) for this purpose. However, even if such an infrastructure is deployed on the roadside, it is not trivial to design a system that distributes on-demand traffic information. Existing solutions employ a centrialized design where the traffic information is stored at a central database and the vehicles then query the database for information of their interest. Such solutions are simply not scalable due to the huge volume of queries the central database would have to handle. Moreover, such a communication architecture does not take into account the fact that traffic related queries are location sensitive and that the sources for a particular query also tend to be localized.