Trafficinfo: An Algorithm for VANET Dissemination of Real-time Traffic Information1
Ting Zhong, Bo Xu, Piotr Szczurek, Ouri Wolfson · 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual MeetingITS AmericaERTICOITS JapanTransCore · 2008
In this paper the authors propose an algorithm for disseminating reports about real-time traffic conditions in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET’s). Using this method, each vehicle makes local decision on when to disseminate reports, how many to disseminate, and which reports to disseminate. In order to deal with the bandwidth and memory constraints, reports are prioritized in terms of their value, as reflected by supply and demand. The authors compare by simulations the proposed algorithm with Grassroots, an existing VANET dissemination algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms Grassroots.