Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 15th EAI International Conference, CollaborateCom 2019, London, UK, August 19-22, 2019, Proceedings

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Reliable Collaborative Semi-infrastructure Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for Local File Sharing

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-30146-0_47,
        author={Bassem Mokhtar and Mohamed Azab and Efat Fathalla and Esraa Ghourab and Mohamed Magdy and Mohamed Eltoweissy},
        title={Reliable Collaborative Semi-infrastructure Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for Local File Sharing},
        proceedings={Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 15th EAI International Conference, CollaborateCom 2019, London, UK, August 19-22, 2019, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2019},
        month={8},
        keywords={Vehicular Cloud Communication (VCC) Nagel-Schreckenberg rules Network as a service (NaaS) Collaborative file sharing},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-30146-0_47}
    }
    
  • Bassem Mokhtar
    Mohamed Azab
    Efat Fathalla
    Esraa Ghourab
    Mohamed Magdy
    Mohamed Eltoweissy
    Year: 2019
    Reliable Collaborative Semi-infrastructure Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for Local File Sharing
    COLLABORATECOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30146-0_47
Bassem Mokhtar,*, Mohamed Azab1,*, Efat Fathalla2,*, Esraa Ghourab3,*, Mohamed Magdy4,*, Mohamed Eltoweissy1,*
  • 1: Computer and Information Sciences, Virginia Military Institute
  • 2: Old Dominion University
  • 3: Alexandria University
  • 4: Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
*Contact email: bmokhtar@alexu.edu.eg, mazab@vt.edu, effat_samir@mena.vt.edu, esraa.M.Ghourab@mena.vt.edu, mmagdy@aast.edu, eltoweissymy@vmi.edu

Abstract

Recently, Vehicular Cloud Communication (VCC) has been gaining momentum targeting intelligent and efficient data transmission. VCC is a type of mobile ad-hoc network comprising heterogeneous vehicles sharing their resources to perform collaborative activities. In this paper, we propose a new semi-infrastructure file-browsing in order to provide Network as a service (NaaS) enabling internet-independent browsing. In our scenario, a central management platform plays the role of controlling and managing the selection of relaying vehicles supporting the source to destination file transmission procedure. Nagel-Schreckenberg rules for traffic cellular automata (CA) are used as the basis for our scenario simulation. Nagel-Schreckenberg rules simulate the behavior of a group of hypothetical vehicles moving across a highway. We study the reliability and efficiency of file transfer in such settings. Simulation results show that the number of selected relays required to establish the network highly impacts the probability of successfully sending the requested files. In addition, the distances between the selected relays influence the network throughput and the probability of network failure. Moreover, the density of relays strongly affects the overall delay that occurs due to the continuous re-transmission of the selected files among different hops.