An adaptive alert message dissemination protocol for VANET to improve road safety

Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is gaining much attention recently because of its many important applications in transportation, to improve road safety, reduce traffic congestion, to enable efficient traffic management etc. However, there are several technical issues to be addressed for its effective deployment. Stability in communication in VANET is difficult to achieve due to rapid network changes. Restoration is inefficient while using traditional protocols based on broadcast storm. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive protocol to improve performance for on road safety alert application in VANET. It can alleviate the broadcast storm problem using adaptive wait-windows and adaptive probability to transmit. Simulation shows that our proposed approach has better performances in terms of number of collision, success rate, and delay, when compared with other existing protocols.

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