Project Field : Transportation Wireless Communication
Project Title : Multi-Hop Protocol for Inter-Vehicle Communication in Traffic Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Project : PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Project Duration : Sep 2013 –
Description of Project :
Transportation is vital to today’s society, with huge economic importance. As a result, more and more computing infrastructure is being deployed to make vehicles safer, cheaper and more efficient. Meanwhile, connectivity is also increasing our ability to access more information at greater speeds. Connectivity whilst on the move, particularly whilst in vehicles, has come of age. GSM subscribers worldwide has become more and more, and the take up of mobile data offerings is also increasing. Applications of connectivity in vehicles range from uploading telematics data and downloading map updates, to downloading entertainment and advertisements. A variety of intelligent handover algorithms have been proposed that aimed to decrease disruption between different networks caused by handover, many of them requiring a knowledge of each wireless network’s coverage, but no viable implementations of such coverage maps existed. In order to investigate the off-the-shelf communications technologies for vehicles, a suitable platform was required. In using networking technologies outdoors, there is normally an expectation that meteorological parameters will affect the performance. Today, mobility and vertical handovers have mean that the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is no longer suitable for modelling modern networking. The peripheral networks have significantly different throughputs and error properties when compared to the fibre optic networks used in the core, despite being at the same notional OSI layer.To further improve the vehicular ad hoc network, network coding will be introduced into the protocol. By applying network coding in the multi-hop protocol, it is assumed that the communication between vehicles can be significantly improved, with higher efficiency, and better yet, through multi-hop protocol in vehicular network, there is no GSM data plan needed. In other word, using multi-hop in vehicular network can be free while having information being shared around, except for the installation and maintenance fees.
Contact Person : Lim Kit Guan
Contact Email : kitguan.lim.my@ieee.org
Publications :
Modelling, Simulation & Computing Laboratory (mscLab) 