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Title | ||
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A Distributed Multi-hop Clustering Algorithm for Infrastructure-Less Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks |
Abstract | ||
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Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) aim to improve travailing safety, comfort and efficiency via enabling communication between vehicles and between vehicles and infrastructure. Clustering is proposed as a promising technique to efficiently manage and deal with highly dynamic and dense features of vehicular topology. However, clustering generates a high number of control messages to manage and maintain the clustering structure. In this paper, we present our work that aims to facilitate the management of the disconnected infrastructure-less VANET areas by organizing the network topology using a distributed multi-hop clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm is an enhanced version of the distributed version of LTE for V2X communications (LTE4V2X-D) [7] framework for the infrastructure-less VANET zone. We are able to improve the performance of LTE4V2X-D to better support clustering stability while decreasing clustering overhead. This is made possible due to a judicious choice of metrics for the selection of cluster heads and maintenance of clusters. Our algorithm uses a combination of three metrics, vehicle direction, velocity and position, in order to select a cluster-head that will have the longest lifetime in the cluster. The simulation comparison results of the proposed algorithm with LTE4V2X-D demonstrate the effectiveness of the novel enhanced clustering algorithm through the considerable improvement in the cluster stability and overhead. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1007/978-3-319-95153-9_7 | international conference on information and communication technology |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Cluster (physics),Computer science,Computer network,Network topology,Hop (networking),Wireless ad hoc network,Cluster analysis,Vehicular ad hoc network | Conference | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 12 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed Alioua | 1 | 6 | 2.80 |
| Sidi Mohammed Senouci | 2 | 175 | 26.99 |
| Moussaoui Samira | 3 | 84 | 15.60 |
| Esubalew Alemneh | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Med-Ahmed-Amine Derradji | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Fella Benaziza | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |