Title
A Connectivity-Prediction-Based Dynamic Clustering Model for VANET in an Urban Scene
Abstract
Maintaining network connectivity is an important challenge for vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) in an urban scene, which has more complex road conditions than highways and suburban areas. Most existing studies analyze end-to-end connectivity probability under a certain node distribution model, and reveal the relationship among network connectivity, node density, and a communication range. Because of various influencing factors and changing communication states, most of their results are not applicable to VANET in an urban scene. In this article, we propose a connectivity prediction-based dynamic clustering (DC) model for VANET in an urban scene. First, we introduce a connectivity prediction method (CP) according to the features of a vehicle node and relative features among vehicle nodes. Then, we formulate a DC model based on connectivity among vehicle nodes and vehicle node density. Finally, we present a DC model-based routing method to realize stable communications among vehicle nodes. The experimental results show that the proposed CP can achieve a lower error rate than the geographic routing based on predictive locations and multilayer perceptron. The proposed routing method can achieve lower end-to-end latency and higher delivery rate than the greedy perimeter stateless routing and modified distributed and mobility-adaptive clustering-based methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/JIOT.2020.2990935
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Connectivity prediction,dynamic clustering (DC),Internet of Vehicles,routing,urban scene,vehicular ad hoc network (VANET)
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
2327-4662
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiujun Cheng1898.12
Guiyuan Yuan2192.59
MengChu Zhou38989534.94
Shangce Gao448645.41
Zhenhua Huang5537.12
Cong Liu661.74