A flooding-based solution to improve location services in VANETs.

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Publication date
2016
Publication type
Proceedings Article
Summary Location-based routings for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) use location information in routing decisions. However, location-based routing protocols need location services to query the location information of the communication partner node so that packets could be forwarded properly. In this paper, we propose a proactive flooding-based location service which name is Semi-Flooding Location Service (SFLS). The basic design objective in our proposal is to minimize the number of update packets sent over the whole network. We employed a conditional update technique that manages the number of location updates at the forwarder nodes. This significantly reduces the overhead of location updates. To study the effectiveness of our algorithm, a mathematical model is developed, and some numerical results are provided. Results demonstrated that SFLS achieves its design goals.
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IEEE
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