SNR-Based Early Warning Message Scheme for VANETs

Authors

  • Muath Obaidat Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA
  • Ihsasn Shahwan Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA
  • Ahmed Hassebo Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA
  • Suhaib Obeidat Computer Science Department, Bloomfield College, NJ, USA
  • Mohamed Ali Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA
  • Matluba Khodjaeva Computer Science Department, John Jay College at CUNY, New York, NY, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.1532

Keywords:

Warning message, broadcasting, cross-layer, SNR, suppression, VANET

Abstract

A Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is a special type of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). One of the main applications of VANETs is safety. This is accomplished by disseminating an Early Warning Message (EWM) to all vehicles in an emergency zone. However, broadcasting an EWM in a multihop environment, such as a VANET, introduces many challenges. The main challenge is the broadcast storm problem. In this paper, we propose a novel broadcasting communication scheme for VANETs. During an emergency situation a congested scenario is possible when vehicle density on the road is high. This causes contention at the MAC layer, which leads to collisions and increases the number of rebroadcasts, hence reducing packet dissemination, increasing delay and network resource use. Our proposed communication scheme is an SNR-based dynamic suppression scheme that aims to significantly reduce the effects of the broadcast storm problem by minimizing the number of rebroadcasting vehicles. The proposed scheme achieves this by considering the physical layer characteristics and the number of times a vehicle receives an EWM. Moreover, we correlate vehicle density and suppression range through a formula to determine the effective suppression range. The proposed scheme maintains network connectivity and achieves almost 100% reachability to all vehicles throughout the zone. Furthermore, the proposed scheme minimizes delay by 0.4 sec in high density scenarios.

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Author Biographies

Muath Obaidat, Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA

Muath Obaidat is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Information Security at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Department of Electrical Engineering at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has MS in computer engineering from NJIT and computer science degree from Monmouth University. He has many scientific article publications in journals and respected conference proceedings. His research interests lie in the area of digital forensics, ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) security and privacy. His recent research crosscuts the areas 5G architectures and protocols, cloud computing and security. He serves on multiple conferences and workshop program and organizing committees. In addition, he is a peer reviewer for many International journals.

Ihsasn Shahwan, Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA

Ihsasn Shahwan earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from City College of New York. He worked as Cloud Networking and Infrastructure Engineer. He has extensive experience in SDNs, VFN, Layers 1/2/3 G/MPLSbased VPNs, Architecture design of OSSs for IP/MPLS/GMPLS Optical networks, Next Generation data-centric Networking Technologies and Architectures, Traffic Engineering, Carrier-Grade Ethernet networking technology and architecture. In addition, he has several conference proceedings and journal papers.

Ahmed Hassebo, Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA

Ahmed Hassebo is a Ph.D. candidate at the department of Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York. He earned his BS and MS both in Electrical Engineering from Egypt. His research interest is in the area of 5G-based Converged Electric Power Grid, scheduling in IoT and smart grid applications. He has several publications in the area of his research interest.

Suhaib Obeidat, Computer Science Department, Bloomfield College, NJ, USA

Suhaib Obeidat received his Ph.D degree from Arizona State University in Computer Science. He finished MS in Computer Science from Monmouth University. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Bloomfield College in 2014 as the coordinator of the Network Engineering program. His main research interests are in the area of Wireless Networks, bandwidth allocation in 5G networks and cyber security and education.

Mohamed Ali, Electrical Engineering Department, City College of New York, NY, USA

Mohamed Ali received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the City College of the City University of New York in 1989. He joined the faculty of electrical engineering at the City College of New York in 1989 where he is currently a Professor. Since 1995 he has been an IT Consultant for several major telecom carriers in the USA. He has published over 140 refereed journal papers, invited talks, conference proceedings, and several book chapters. His current research interests include Next-Generation Fixed-Mobile broadband access technologies, PON-based broadband access networks, WDM-based Optical Networking and architecture, Ethernet Networking Technologies and switching, 5G networks, IoT for mission critical applications. Ali has received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award among others.

Matluba Khodjaeva, Computer Science Department, John Jay College at CUNY, New York, NY, USA

Matluba Khodjaeva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Graduate Faculty in the Digital Forensics and Cyber Security program and Doctoral faculty of Computer Science at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Her research interests is in Cryptography, it mainly in the area of secure outsourcing computations to the cloud. Her Ph.D is from The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2017.

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Obaidat, M., Shahwan, I., Hassebo, A., Obeidat, S., Ali, M., & Khodjaeva, M. (2020). SNR-Based Early Warning Message Scheme for VANETs. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 15(3), 163–190. https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.1532

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