Article in Proceedings INPROC-2003-36

BibliographyTian, Jing; Han, Lu; Rothermel, Kurt; Cseh, Christian: Spatially Aware Packet Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Inter-Vehicle Radio Networks.
In: Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). Vol. 2.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 1546-1552, english.
IEEE, October 12, 2003.
ISBN: 0-7803-8125-4.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaC.2.1 (Network Architecture and Design)
C.2.2 (Network Protocols)
Abstract

Inter-Vehicle Communication will become an important building block for ITS telematics applications like safety and warning functions. Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) can serve as a local wireless network for exchanging information between cars for cooperative driver assistance applications. For the routing of data packets in such large-scale MANETs consisting of vehicles on the road, geographic multi-hop packet forwarding is a promising approach. However, a main drawback is that it performs poorly in networks with many topology holes. In this paper, we propose a spatially aware packet routing approach to predict permanent topology holes caused by spatial constraints and avoid them aforehand. This approach is generic and can be used in combination with any existing geographic forwarding protocol as an extension. Our simulations demonstrate that spatial awareness can significantly improve geographic forwarding performance in situations with many permanent topology holes, like in dynamic vehicle networks.

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Contactjing.tian@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)CarTALK 2000
Entry dateFebruary 13, 2004
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