Volume 33, Issue 7 e4468
RESEARCH ARTICLE

A cross-layered scheme for multichannel and reactive routing in vehicular ad hoc networks

Fadlallah Chbib

Corresponding Author

Fadlallah Chbib

LIST3N/ERA Lab, Université de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes, France

Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Islamic University of Lebanon, Wardanieh, Lebanon

Telecom Paris, LTCI Laboratory, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Correspondence

Fadlallah Chbib, INFRES, LTCI Laboratory, Telecom Paris, 19 place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, France.

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Lyes Khoukhi

Lyes Khoukhi

ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, GREYC, Normandie University, Caen, France

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Walid Fahs

Walid Fahs

Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Islamic University of Lebanon, Wardanieh, Lebanon

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Jamal Haydar

Jamal Haydar

Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Islamic University of Lebanon, Wardanieh, Lebanon

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Rida Khatoun

Rida Khatoun

Telecom Paris, LTCI Laboratory, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

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First published: 14 February 2022
Citations: 2

Abstract

Recently, with the different issues encountered in road mobility, the presence and development of the Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) have become a necessity. VANETs have various positive impacts on vehicular safety, road security, traffic management, drivers' comfort, and passengers' convenience. However, the expansion in the world's population has led to enormous traffic congestion on multiple roads. This congestion results in uncontrollable delays affecting economics, society and the environment. In this paper, we propose two routing protocols that depend on the Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR), differing from existing ones by introducing a new metric to select the best route from a source to a destination. In the first protocol, we choose the best route based on the maximum level of SIR at each node. Besides, we select the Backup SIR to minimize the number of SIR calculations at the channel update process. While in the second protocol, we design a hybrid Markov chain model composed of two Markov models; the first one aims at predicting the SIR value of the next round, while the second one is an analytical model that targets managing the number of channel update process. In order to validate our solution, extensive simulations are realized in considering the real scenario of the city of Beirut (Lebanon). The results show that our proposed protocols perform better with regard to overhead, packet delivery ratio, throughput and end-to-end delay.

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