Intelligent Traffic System for VANET-Enabled Vehicle Platoon

  Pratibha R,  H B Mahesh

Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork (VANET) is a type of Mobile Ad-hoc (MANET) network where the nodes are constrained to move along the road. Vehicles in VANET are equipped with a radio device to communicate with each other and also with the road side units (base stations). Vehicular networks aims to make the driving experience safer, efficient and enjoyable. Traffic Management is one of the most critical issues. Lots of research and management techniques are used by government and city traffic controlling bodies to resolve Vehicle traffic congestion issue. As Vehicle traffic congestion is reflected as delays while traveling. Traffic congestion has a number of negative effects and is a major problem in today's society. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) can be used to provide traffic management, route planning, and identifying roadside amenities for long-range wireless communication. VANET technology is used as a medium to generate updated information for the vehicle when it heads from source to its destination. In this project, aim is to propose an innovative approach to deal with the problem of traffic congestion using the characteristics of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET). Firstly, vehicles that arrive towards traffic signal are grouped into the platoons which are assumed to be equal sized jobs. Then these jobs are scheduled using an online algorithm called Oldest Job First (OJF) algorithm to reduce the delay across the intersection. Second approach is by introducing a new scheme consists of a smart city framework that transmit information about traffic conditions and consist of a warning message module composed of Intelligent Traffic Lights (ITLs) that will help the driver to take proper decisions about current traffic conditions. By utilizing AODV protocol of ad hoc mobile network to deal with the problem of vehicle traffic congestion in vehicular networks. The performance is measured in terms of no. of packets broadcasted, percentage of packets delivered, and percentage of traffic diverted and overhead to manage the problem of data traffic congestion in computer networks.

Keywords- VANETS, AODV, OJF algorithm, Smart City Frame Work.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1502151
Page Number(s) - 853-858
Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 2 | May 2015
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Pratibha R,  H B Mahesh,   "Intelligent Traffic System for VANET-Enabled Vehicle Platoon", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 2, pp.853-858, May 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1502151.pdf