2nd International IEEE Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware

Research Article

Reliable Multihop Broadcast Protocols for Inter-Vehicular Communication in a Fading Channel

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382620,
        author={ Ashish  Sangwan and  Venkatesh Ramaiyan Ramaiyan and  Rajeev Shorey},
        title={Reliable Multihop Broadcast Protocols for Inter-Vehicular Communication in a Fading Channel},
        proceedings={2nd International IEEE Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COMSWARE},
        year={2007},
        month={7},
        keywords={Multihop Broadcasting  Performance  Protocols  Vehicular Communication},
        doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382620}
    }
    
  • Ashish Sangwan
    Venkatesh Ramaiyan Ramaiyan
    Rajeev Shorey
    Year: 2007
    Reliable Multihop Broadcast Protocols for Inter-Vehicular Communication in a Fading Channel
    COMSWARE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382620
Ashish Sangwan1,*, Venkatesh Ramaiyan Ramaiyan2,*, Rajeev Shorey3,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
  • 2: ECE Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  • 3: General Motors R&D, India Science Laboratory, Bangalore
*Contact email: sangwan@cse.iitd.ernet.in, rvenkat@ece.iisc.ernet.in, rajeev._shorey@gm.com

Abstract

We consider a inter-vehicular communication scenario with vehicles moving along a highway. The vehicles are equipped with radio devices and can communicate among themselves. We study the problem of reliable multihop broadcasting in such a scenario. We propose two broadcasting algorithms -grid based multihop broadcast (GBMB) and controlled flooding (CF). Controlled flooding is derived from classical flooding. Grid based multihop broadcasting is a simple grid based multihop scheme that adds reliability as well as increases throughput by reducing collisions. We have shown through simulations that our proposed protocols have high reliability and yield efficient channel utilization when compared to Flooding, Probabilistic Flooding and Area Based Protocols in scenarios where the channel is lossy.