LAMD: Location-based Alert Message Dissemination scheme for emerging infrastructure-based vehicular networks

Raoua Chakroun (1) , Slim Abdellatif (1) , Thierry Villemur (1)

1 LAAS-SARA - Équipe Services et Architectures pour Réseaux Avancés

Requiring low dissemination delays and thorough vehicles coverage in the vicinity of an emergency event, Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) were considered as the most adapted communication network to support alert messages dissemination. With the advent of Cooperative ITS services, emerging vehicular networks are expected to increasingly rely on Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication links, which are expected to be nominally available, with some transient and time-limited connectivity losses. The presence of V2I links paves the way to centralized network control, which can leverage vehicle-related and contextual information provided by the cloud to make more informed decisions. This paper proposes an effective alert message dissemination procedure called LAMD (Location-based Alert Messages Dissemination) for emerging vehicular networks that combines V2I broadcasts with selected V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle) rebroadcasts. The originality of our scheme lies in the selection process of V2V rebroadcasts, which is based on vehicles’ location regarding predefined rebroadcast points selected by a centralized controller. This leads to very limited collisions, low delivery delays, and high information coverage with insignificant signaling and network overhead compared to legacy VANET based dissemination techniques.

Mots clés: Vehicular communications; Alert message dissemination; Safety applications; SDN

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Raoua Chakroun, Slim Abdellatif, Thierry Villemur. LAMD: Location-based Alert Message Dissemination scheme for emerging infrastructure-based vehicular networks. Internet of Things, 2022, 19, pp.100510. ⟨10.1016/j.iot.2022.100510⟩. ⟨hal-03752292⟩