1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications

Research Article

Virtual Access Points for Vehicular Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2876,
        author={Nikolaos Frangiadakis and Daniel C\~{a}mara and Fethi Filali and Antonio A. F. Loureiro and Nick Roussopoulos},
        title={Virtual Access Points for Vehicular Networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={MOBILWARE},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={VANET Virtual Access Points network coverage caching},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2876}
    }
    
  • Nikolaos Frangiadakis
    Daniel Câmara
    Fethi Filali
    Antonio A. F. Loureiro
    Nick Roussopoulos
    Year: 2010
    Virtual Access Points for Vehicular Networks
    MOBILWARE
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBILWARE2008.2876
Nikolaos Frangiadakis1,*, Daniel Câmara2,*, Fethi Filali3,*, Antonio A. F. Loureiro4,*, Nick Roussopoulos1,*
  • 1: Dept of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. +1 301 405 2687
  • 2: Institut Eurecom 2229, route des Crêtes- BP 193 06904 Sophia-Antipolis, France. +33 4 93 00 82 14
  • 3: Institut Eurecom 2229, route des Crêtes- BP 193 06904 Sophia-Antipolis, France. +33 4 93 00 81 34
  • 4: Department of Computer Science Federal University of Minas Gerais Caixa Postal 702 30123-970 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. +55 31 3499 5589
*Contact email: ntg@cs.umd.edu, daniel.camara@eurecom.fr, fethi.filali@eurecom.fr, loureiro@dcc.ufmg.br, nick@cs.umd.edu

Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of Virtual Access Points (VAPs) for wireless Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETS). This new technique allows data dissemination among vehicles, thus extending the reach of roadside access points to uncovered road areas. Each vehicle that receives a message from an Access Point (AP) stores this message and rebroadcasts it into non covered areas. This extends the network coverage for non time critical messages. The VAP role is transparent to the connected nodes, and designed to avoid interference since each operates on a bounded region outside any AP. The experiments show the presented mechanism of store and forward at specific positions present a gain, in term of all the evaluated parameters.