Direction based Hazard Routing Protocol (DHRP) for disseminating road hazard information using road side infrastructures in VANETs.
This paper presents Direction based Hazard Routing Protocol (DHRP) for disseminating information about fixed road hazards such as road blocks, tree fall, boulders on road, snow pile up, landslide, road maintenance work and other obstacles to the vehicles approaching the hazardous location. The proposed work focuses on dissemination of hazard messages on highways with sparse traffic. The vehicle coming across the hazard would report the presence of the hazard. It is proposed to use Road Side fixed infrastructure Units for reliable and timely delivery of hazard messages to vehicles. The vehicles can then take appropriate safety action to avoid the hazardous location. The proposed protocol has been implemented and tested using SUMO simulator to generate road traffic and NS 2.33 network simulator to analyze the performance of DHRP. The performance of the proposed protocol was also compared with simple flooding protocol and the results are presented.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, R. M. D Engineering College, RSM Nagar, Kavaraipettai, Chennai, 601206 Tamil Nadu India.
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Computer Studies, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Thandalam, Chennai, 602105 Tamil Nadu India.
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Direction based; Hazard message; Highways; RSUs; Road hazards; Selective forwarding; Verification of hazard message