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An efficient energy‐aware predictive clustering approach for vehicular ad hoc networks
Author(s) -
Bali Rasmeet S.,
Kumar Neeraj,
Rodrigues Joel J.P.C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.2924
Subject(s) - computer science , cluster analysis , scheme (mathematics) , wireless ad hoc network , throughput , vehicular ad hoc network , service (business) , intelligent transportation system , efficient energy use , computation , quality of service , task (project management) , energy (signal processing) , computer network , distributed computing , real time computing , algorithm , artificial intelligence , wireless , telecommunications , transport engineering , mathematical analysis , statistics , mathematics , economy , electrical engineering , management , engineering , economics
Summary With an emergence of information and communication technologies, there is an increase in the demands of providing safety and comfort to the passengers during their mobility on the road. These demands can be fulfilled by one of the most popular networks of its type—vehicular adhoc networks (VANETs). As vehicles in VANETs are constrained with respect to the available resources such as computation and storage, lot of energy is consumed to perform a number of complex operations, which may lead to the emission of harmful C O 2 emission that effect the global warming system. Moreover, because of high velocity led by constant topological changes, it is a challenging task to maintain quality of service with respect to parameters such as high throughput, and minimum end‐to‐end delay. Hence, an intelligent approach is required to optimize the various complex operations in this environment, which may led to the minimum emission of C O 2 and other gasses. To address these issues, this paper proposes an efficient energy‐aware predictive clustering scheme for vehicles. Efficient algorithms are designed for future mobility predictions and average variations of vehicles on the road. The algorithms estimate the clustering duration and total vehicles in the cluster. The performance of the designed algorithms is studied using extensive simulations by varying the number of vehicles and cluster durations in comparison with existing benchmarked scheme in the literature. The results obtained show that the proposed scheme is superior in comparison with the existing scheme of its category. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.