Modeling Vehicles Mobility for Connectivity Analysis in VANET

Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is a subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) which provides the safety measure and other different applications to the drivers of the vehicles. The goal of VANET is to fulfil the requirements of users on roadside area, which improves the safe and comfortable journey. Secure routing is the main issue in VANET. Dynamic topology and wireless networking makes the VANET vulnerable to numerous sorts of attacks. Wormhole is one of the extreme assaults in VANET. This type of attack disturbs the working of routing protocol such as Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol. The motivation of this research work is that by using proposed detection and prevention approach the VANET can be made more secure. The results show how the performance of AODV routing protocol is affected by wormhole. In this research paper the impact of wormhole attack is analysed in terms of throughput, packer delivery ratio, and end-to-end delay. An approach is also proposed to detect and prevent wormhole attack in VANET over a real map on different vehicle densities based on multipath concept.

In vehicular ad hoc network (VANETs), the applications mainly focused on the road and making their journey safe and comfortable to fulfill the users’ requirements. It is a challenging subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Network, which empowers smart transmission among vehicles and between vehicles and roadside frameworks. It is an optimistic methodology for the Intelligent Transport System (ITS). There are numerous difficulties to be tended while utilizing VANET. It is flexible and has a high dynamic topology and flexibility which makes the conventional MANET protocols unacceptable for VANET. Trust is a principal element which is used to create a trustful environment to improve the security in vehicular networks. Trust can be calculated by observing the human behavior which creates a trusted communicating environment. In this paper, we define the architecture of VANET, then the communication establishment and various challenges. Some trust models had been defined in this paper to enforce honest information sharing between communicating nodes. Trust establishment is compulsory among communicating vehicles to build a secure messages exchange and reliability.

The exploration of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) has garnered attention from scholars and businesses alike because of their changing structure and expected traffic flow patterns. VANETs offer an avenue to boost road safety by offering drivers up-to-the-minute updates and predictions regarding road conditions. As a version of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) VANETs consist of units that can communicate wirelessly and share information. This study explores elements of VANET (Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks) such, as structures and functions of networks connection points and the issues and methods used for guiding traffic efficiently to create a secure and dependable communication network system. Key indicators of performance like how many packets delivered (Packet Delivery Ratio. PDR) packet losses experienced during transmission processes are carefully analyzed to gauge the overall reliability of the system. Additionally, the research includes a comparison among routing strategies employed in VANET environments such as those based on network topology information or geographical location details, versus approaches centered around organized clusters of vehicles. Highlighting how these differ from methodologies typically seen in traditional cellular networks. This paper provides insights into how different routing protocols work in networking paradigms by examining different perspectives.

A type of ad hoc network formed among moving vehicles that come in one another’s radio transmission range is called Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET). VANET may be deployed using three architectures: pure ad hoc, WLAN and hybrid. Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) are the two modes in VANET used for communication among vehicles. These features not only distinguish a VANET from other ad hoc networks but also make these networks more exposed to attacks and increase their complexity. These networks being the primary mechanism for communication in VANETs, appropriate and timely delivery of information is of prime importance. Due to the existence of various vehicular traffic scenarios, a single category of routing protocols is not sufficient for the VANETs. Therefore, various categories of routing protocols have been tailored to meet specific kinds of routing requirements in this framework. Most significant ones are ad hoc/topology-based, position-based, geocast-based, cluster-based, broadcast-based protocols. There exist a number of attacks that apart from affecting various other parameters also affect the routing protocols in these VANETs. Most of these attacks may be launched in all the above-mentioned three architectures. But, one of the most dangerous attacks is the Sybil attack that may be initiated in pure ad hoc deployment of VANET where vehicles communicate with one another in one to one manner using carry forward approach. In this paper, with the help of illustrative example for each of the five categories of routing protocols, we show how Sybil attack affects these protocols. Considering the ad hoc scenarios in VANETs, we also discuss a prevention mechanism for the Sybil attack briefly.

The technology is growing towards smart communication through smart devices. This smart communication leads to the development of Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET). These days each vehicle is acting as a smart device which could establish a smart communication among the vehicles. The growth of VANET communication passes through various stages such as RoadSide Unit (RSU), Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V), Cluster based, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and Web VANET (WVANET) Communication models. All these advancements in VANET architecture provide a smart communication among the vehicles. The vital aim of VANET architecture is to provide an efficient and effective emergency and warning alerts to the vehicles so that the vehicle can take appropriate decisions without any delay to safeguard the safety of the passengers. However, it will be more reliable to the vehicles if the VANET architecture could provide a live emergency and warning alerts to the vehicles in well ahead of time. In order to provide live emergency and warning alerts the communication as well as the device should be smart. In this paper, we have developed a live emergency and warning alerts to the vehicles though android application. Each vehicle will have the android application installed on it, in which the entire live driving scenario is provided. Once, the live driving scenario is provided, the live emergency and warning alerts can be shown to the vehicles in well ahead of time. As live emergency alerts are shown to the vehicles, it will help the vehicles to take the right decision more effectively.

Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) technology enables communication between vehicles, or vehicles and road-side units (RSUs) through wireless communication devices installed on the vehicles. One of the most important goals of VANETs is providing safety applications for passengers. In addition, VANETs provide comfort applications to users. Guaranteeing a reliable and stable routing protocol over VANETs is a very important step. The proposed research attempts to improve routing protocols that decrease the end-to-end delay to suit VANET communication characteristics. In addition, it proposes analysis of the end-to-end delay probability distribution. More specifically, we derive a closed-form expression for the probability distribution of the re-healing delay in a VANET conditioned on the distance between two VANET clusters. Furthermore, we propose a closed-form expression for the probability distribution of the unconditional re-healing delay. Moreover, we develop a mathematical model to calculate the probability distribution of the end-to-end delay. On the other hand, using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones in wireless communications and Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) has started to attract attention. We propose a routing protocol that uses infrastructure drones for boosting VANET communications to achieve a minimum vehicle-to-drone packet delivery delay. In addition, we propose a closed-form expression for the probability distribution of the vehicle-to-drone packet delivery delay on a two-way highway. Moreover, based on that closed-form expression, we can calculate the minimum drone density (maximum separation distance between two adjacent drones) that stochastically limits the worst case of the vehicle-to-drone packet delivery delay. Furthermore, we propose a drones-active service (DAS) that is added to the location service in a VANET. This service dynamically and periodically obtains the required number of active drones based on the current highway connectivity state by obtaining the maximum distance between each two adjacent drones while satisfying a probabilistic constraint for vehicle-todrone packet delivery delay. Our analysis focuses on two-way highway VANET networks with low vehicular density. The simulation results show the accuracy of our analysis and reflect the relation between the drone density, vehicular density and speed, other VANET parameters, and the vehicle-to-drone packet delivery delay. In addition, we propose a new routing protocol called multi-copy intersection-based routing (MCIR) for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) in urban areas. MCIR is an intersectionbased routing protocol that forwards multiple copies of the packets in different road segments. Moreover, it is a beacon-less routing protocol with a carry-and-forward strategy. We show via simulation that the MCIR protocol is superior to other existing routing protocols, especially in low vehicular density scenarios. The results show that MCIR achieves a shorter end-to-end delay and a higher packet delivery ratio in urban VANET communications.

This paper proposes a novel network architecture based on content routing and dissemination techniques, expressly adapted for hybrid mobile and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Hybrid vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are a subclass of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) where each node is a moving vehicle equipped with one or more communication devices, potentially having access to several different physical communication channels. This results in a partly decentralized, self-organizing mobile radio network with a fast changing topology. Applications designed for VANETs still require efficient mapping techniques to associate content to the host serving it, as well as centralized databases associating vehicles and mobile nodes to a persistent and unique identifier. They also assume that the content providers are located in the infrastructure, but nodes and vehicles can be equipped with sensors and as such produce information. This means that dissemination and retrieval algorithms have to take into account the distribution of the consumers, providers and forwarder all over the network.

VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Network) is an ad-hoc wireless network which nodes are composed by mostly moving vehicles and infrastructure communications or access points along the road. It integrates adhoc networking, cellular technology, wireless LAN and other technologies, which include GPS(Global Positioning System), digital mapping, sensing technologies and advanced information processing tools to support Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS). VANET is developed mainly to improve road safety and to increase the traffic efficiency. It is designed to support the exchange of warning messages among the vehicles to increase the passenger safety and other information related to VANET applications and services . To achieve these goals, there are several issues that should be addressed. One of these challenges is designing reliable and efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for VANET. Due to VANET’s distinguishing characteristics, such as high mobility of the nodes, dynamic network topology, enough battery power, high processing power, etc, the MAC protocols designed for MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Network) are not suitable for VANET. The research community has been working to develop MAC protocols appropriate for this ad-hoc network by proposing new design or modifying the existing one.In this paper, the VANET’s architecture, characteristics, applications and standard are discussed and then a comprehensive study of several MAC protocols available in the literature is presented.

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are based on network technology where cars act as mobile nodes to form a communication network. In VANETs, routing protocols have a significance regarding the overall network performance since they determine the way of sending and receiving packets between mobile nodes. Most of the protocols proposed for VANETs are adapted from Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) routing protocols. However, due to the specific characteristics of VANETs, especially high mobility, and dynamic topology, the routing protocols in ad hoc networks do not adapt immediately to VANETs. Therefore, secure routing of Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) against attacks, which are of various types, is still a challenging issue. This paper is going to present a synthesis of the most relevant protocols that have addressed the secure routing issue in VANETs. It also establishes a comparison regarding the offered features and the studied performance aspects through which it is notified that a security mechanism depends not only on the level of efficiency but also on the network constraints.

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a special form of wireless networks made by vehicles communicating among themselves on roads. The conventional routing protocols proposed for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) work poorly in VANETs. As communication links break more frequently in VANETs than in MANETs, the routing reliability of such highly dynamic networks needs to be paid special attention. To date, very little research has focused on the routing reliability of VANETs on highways. In this paper, we use the evolving graph theory to model the VANET communication graph on a highway. The extended evolving graph helps capture the evolving characteristics of the vehicular network topology and determines the reliable routes preemptively. This paper is the first to propose an evolving graph-based reliable routing scheme for VANETs to facilitate quality-of-service (QoS) support in the routing process. A new algorithm is developed to find the most reliable route in the VANET evolving graph from the source to the destination. We demonstrate, through the simulation results, that our proposed scheme significantly outperforms the related protocols in the literature.

A survey on authentication schemes in VANETs for secured communication

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) are key to realizing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Although VANETs belong to the class of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), and there are numerous routing protocols for MANETs, none of these protocols are applicable for VANETs. In particular, VANETs are highly dynamic due to high speed mobility of vehicles and traditional routing algorithms for MANETs cannot deal with such dynamicity of network nodes. Several comparative studies have suggested AODV (Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector), a well known MANET protocol that is adaptive to dynamic changes in network and makes efficient utilization of network resources, to be the best candidate for dealing with VANETs. However, verbatim adoption of AODV is not an efficient routing solution for VANETs. Recent works therefore proposed various modifications and/or additions to AODV to make it suitable for VANETs. It is particularly important to control congestion in VANETs by efficiently dealing with the AODV "Route Request" (RREQ) packets. In this paper, we propose Pro-AODV (Proactive AODV), a protocol that uses information from the AODV routing table to minimize congestion in VANETs, yet sustains other performance metrics at acceptable levels. The novelty and elegance in Pro-AODV comes from the fact that it does not require the execution of any additional logic, it is sufficient to know only the size of the routing table at each node.

BaaS: Broadcast as a service cross-layer learning-based approach in cloud assisted VANETs

With increase in human population and economic development, population of private vehicles on road has also increased. This has resulted in increased accident probability and fatalities on the roads. Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have shown promise of bringing down road accidents and fatalities thereof by enabling communication between vehicles. VANETs also allow the road operators to control and monitor vehicles for rash driving and quick relief. However, these networks face challenges of Design, Routing, Communication and Security. Use of wireless medium for communication has left these networks vulnerable to different type of security attacks. One of the important vulnerability in such networks is caused when a malicious vehicle or RSU is able to acquire multiple identities. The attack is termed as Sybil Attack. In VANETs, a malicious vehicle may send wrong messages related to traffic, accident ahead, road closed, etc. This may force the motor driver to take a different route thus making him prone to an untoward incident. In this paper, we present a survey on different detection schemes for detecting Sybil attack. Comparison among these schemes is also presented. Keywords: Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), VANETs Architecture, Security Attacks, Sybil Attack detection.

SummaryThe recent breakthroughs in the automobile industries and telecommunication technologies along with the exceptional multimodal mobility services brought focus on intelligent transportation system (ITS), of which vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) gain much more attention. The distinctive features of software‐defined networking (SDN) leverages the vehicular networks by its state of the centralized art having a comprehensive view of the network. Its potential to bring the flexibility, programmability and other extensive advancements to vehicular networks has set the stage for a novel networking paradigm termed as software‐defined vehicular networks (SDVNs). Many researchers have demonstrated the SDN‐based VANETs with the various configuration of the SDN components in VANET architecture. However, a compilation of the work on the SDN‐based VANET system as a whole, incorporating its architecture, use‐cases, and opportunities, is still inadequate. We start with the summary of the recent studies that exist on the SDVNs, followed by the comprehensive explanation of its components. Next, we present the taxonomy of SDVN based on the architecture modes, protocols, access technologies, and opportunities with trending technologies. Finally, we highlight the challenges, open research issues, and future research directions.