Paper Info
Title
Context-aware and location-based service discovery protocol for Vehicular Networks: Proof of correctness
Abstract
Recent advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and the growing number of applications in Vehicular Networks (VN) have attracted many researchers. Applications in Vehicular Networks comprise but are not limited to safety applications and convenience applications. Deploying Vehicular Networks widely cannot be accomplished without overcoming the existing research challenges in such networks. Service discovery is one of the main challenges in Vehicular Networks which are characterized by their large scale and high mobility. Existing service discovery techniques for ad hoc networks cannot be applied directly to Vehicular Networks scenarios due to their poor performance and decreased efficiency in Vehicular Networks. In this paper, we present our location-based service discovery protocol for Vehicular Networks (LocVSDP). Our protocol permits the discovery of location-aware and timesensitive services in Vehicular Networks. Moreover, our LocVSDP protocol improves service discovery efficiency by integrating service information into the network layer and using diverse channels. In our protocol, we present our efficient mechanism that permits to service requesters to find service providers and their routing information simultaneously, which results in overall bandwidth savings. We make use of diverse channels for the exchange of discovery and routing packets, which decreases the congestion on single channels and improves the delay of service discovery. Then, we present our efficient location-based request propagation and an efficient computation of the service reply, based on the specified location of the requested service in the drivers request. We discuss the implementation of our protocol and present its proof of correctness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/LCN.2010.5735824
LCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
ad hoc networks,vehicular networks,mobile computing,intelligent transportation systems,routing protocols,network layer,lead,location based service,service discovery,routing,integrated services,mobile ad hoc networks,bandwidth,service provider,service providers,ad hoc network
Mobile computing,Computer science,Computer network,Location-based service,Service provider,Vehicular communication systems,Wireless ad hoc network,Service discovery,Vehicular ad hoc network,Routing protocol,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0742-1303
3
0.41
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaouther Abrougui19811.01
Azzedine Boukerche24301418.60
Richard Werner Nelem Pazzi329825.03