Adaptive Quality-of-Service-Based Routing for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks With Ant Colony Optimization

Developing highly efficient routing protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is a challenging task, mainly due to the special characters of such networks: large-scale sizes, frequent link disconnections, and rapid topology changes. In this paper, the authors propose an adaptive quality-of-service (QoS)-based routing for VANETs called AQRV. This new routing protocol adaptively chooses the intersections through which data packets pass to reach the destination, and the selected route should satisfy the QoS constraints and fulfill the best QoS in terms of three metrics, namely connectivity probability, packet delivery ratio (PDR), and delay. To achieve the given objectives, the authors mathematically formulate the routing selection issue as a constrained optimization problem and propose an ant colony optimization (ACO)-based algorithm to solve this problem. In addition, a terminal intersection (TI) concept is presented to decrease routing exploration time and alleviate network congestion. Moreover, to decrease network overhead, the authors propose local QoS models (LQMs) to estimate real time and complete QoS of urban road segments. Simulation results validate the authors' derived LQM models and show the effectiveness of AQRV.

• Order URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2016.2586382
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00189545
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2017, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Li, Guangyu
  • Boukhatem, Lila
  • Wu, Jinsong
• Publication Date: 2017-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 3249-3264
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 66
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication systems; Computer network protocols; Mobile communication systems; Quality of service; Telecommunications; Urban areas; Vehicular ad hoc networks; Wireless communication systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ant colony optimization
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01634659
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 15 2017 11:27AM