V2V-Net: A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Overlay Structure for Service
Deployment in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Anandha Gopalan and Taieb Znati
Abstract:
Ad-hoc networks are an emerging technology with immense potential. Recent
advances in high-tech sensors, communication devices and microprocessors
has given rise to a growing commercial interest in ad-hoc networks
for inter-vehicular communications. Most of the research in inter-vehicular
communication systems has focused on driver safety, accident reporting and
multi-hop routing. There is an enormous potential for service
deployment in such a network, when vehicles need access to
services ``anytime, anywhere". The lack of infrastructure, coupled with the
time-varying characteristics of vehicular ad-hoc networks, brings about new
challenges to the design and deployment of services. This paper addresses
these challenges and presents V2V-Net, a vehicle-to-vehicle overlay structure
for service deployment in vehicular ad hoc networks. We discuss
the main functionalities of the architecture and describe the algorithms for
service registration and discovery. The service-architecture also considers
the mobility of the vehicles and provides a mechanism by which
this can be incorporated into the framework. Finally, the architecture
was evaluated using simulations and the results show that the architecture
performs well under different network conditions.