Research Area:  Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract:

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) present an intriguing platform for several applications on e.g., intelligent transportation system (ITS) and infotainment applications aspire to be the main pattern of communication among vehicles while travelling. This can significantly impact on the amount of data exchanged by vehicles, increasing the contention on communication links and thus, degrading the quality of service of these applications. So, discrimination of data becomes imperative and forwarding critical information on suitable routes becomes decisive. Hence, a quality of service (QoS)-driven mechanism is needed to handle and assign network resources according to the stringent application data traffic demands. But, VANETs high node mobility and frequent link failure, stuck a big challenge in implementing an effective policy to meet and enforce these QoS requirements. A promising way to tackle this issue is to enforce QoS at the network layer, since it is the crucial point in VANETs communication. So, over the years, many QoS-aware routing protocols were specifically conceived for VANETs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of QoS-aware routing protocols in VANETs literature. We examined the protocols based on their ability to support ITS infotainment services, their multi-constraint path problem (MCP), protocols functionality and weakness, objectives and design challenges. This way, we outline future directions for VANETs QoS-aware protocol research.

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Author(s) Name:   Michael Oche, Abubakar Bello Tambuwal, Christopher Chemebe, Rafidah Md Noor & Salvatore Distefano

Publisher name:  SPRINGER

DOI:  10.1007/s11276-018-1860-7

Volume Information:  volume 26, pages 1685–1715 (2020)

Paper Link:   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11276-018-1860-7