Open AccessAn Efficient Multi‐hop Broadcast Protocol for Emergency Messages Dissemination in VANETs
Author(s) -
Wu Libing,
Nie Lei,
Fan Jing,
He Yanxiang,
Liu Qin,
Wu Dan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chinese journal of electronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2075-5597
pISSN - 1022-4653
DOI - 10.1049/cje.2017.03.001
Subject(s) - dissemination , computer science , computer network , atomic broadcast , hop (telecommunications) , relay , vehicular ad hoc network , broadcast radiation , collision , broadcast domain , wireless ad hoc network , channel (broadcasting) , broadcasting (networking) , protocol (science) , real time computing , wireless , telecommunications , computer security , network packet , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Black‐burst based multi‐hop broadcast protocols are effective means to disseminate Emergency messages (EMs) in Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). However, Clear to broadcast (CTB) collision will happen and reduce propagation speed. Aiming at this problem, we propose a Black‐burst and multi‐channel based multihop broadcast (BMMB) protocol. Vehicles with multiple antennas can transmit and sense black‐burst at different channels simultaneously based on multi‐channel technology. Compared with existing black‐burst based methods, BMMB shortens the iterative procedure to find out the optimal segment. Only one relay vehicle can be rapidly selected within the optimal segment without CTB collision. BMMB enables alternative broadcast methods, i.e. , unidirectional broadcast and multi‐directional broadcast for straight roads and intersections respectively. Theoretical analysis is done for performance evaluation of BMMB, and simulation results demonstrate that BMMB performs better in terms of average one‐hop delay and propagation speed.