Paper Info
Title
Smoothing Vehicular Traffic Flow using Vehicular-based Ad Hoc Networking & Computing Grid (VGrid)
Abstract
We propose VGrid: an ad hoc networking and computing grid formed by leveraging inter-vehicle wireless communications. In addition to exchanging data between vehicles, VGrid actively uses pertinent data to perform computations for solving traffic-related problems. In this paper, we examine the problem of smoothing vehicular traffic flow through the use of real-time position and velocity information exchanged over the network. This is accomplished through the application of 1) accident alert messages sent from the site of an accident or other obstruction in the road and 2) dynamically- calculated variable speed limits based on the local density of vehicles. Using a realistic model of highway traffic flow, we show through simulation that VGrid reduces speed variance, corresponding to more homogeneous vehicle behavior in free- flow and obstructed-lane scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ITSC.2006.1706766
ITSC
Keywords
Field
DocType
traffic flow,ad hoc network,ad hoc networks,information exchange,grid computing,wireless communication,mobile communication,real time
Grid computing,Traffic flow,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Smoothing,Wireless ad hoc network,Mobile telephony,Grid,Computation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
1.37
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Chen1112.38
Behrooz Khorashadi2594.90
Chen-Nee Chuah321322.23
Dipak Ghosal42848163.40
Michael Zhang5143.11