Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali City

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a subclass of Mobile Ad Hoc Network that mainly consists of moving and/or stationary vehicles, connected through wireless protocols such as IEEE 802.11p and wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE). With the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), ordin...

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Main Authors: Twahirwa Evariste, Willie Kasakula, James Rwigema, Raja Datta
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Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity
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author Twahirwa Evariste
Willie Kasakula
James Rwigema
Raja Datta
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description Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a subclass of Mobile Ad Hoc Network that mainly consists of moving and/or stationary vehicles, connected through wireless protocols such as IEEE 802.11p and wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE). With the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), ordinary VANET has turned to the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), with additional social aspects, a novel extension themed SIoV has become common in urban areas. However vehicular wireless communication paradigms exhibit short radio communication. This problem has always been approached by supplementing moving vehicles with stationary Road Side Infrastructures, commonly known as roadside units (RSUs). The penetration of such RSUs on the global market is very low; furthermore, their procurement, deployment, and maintenance costs are prohibitively very high. All mentioned challenges have discouraged the widespread deployment of roadside infrastructure especially within large urban scenarios. With this research, we leverage on-street parked vehicles to allow them to exist as temporal gateways in the case study area. A novel modeling technique is introduced to enable a specific Percentage of parked vehicles to take up the role of roadside gateways for a certain percentage of their parking time. A mobile application is implemented that manages parking duration of the vehicle, based on the arrival, and departure time frames. Two more existing strategies were discussed (road-intersection RSUs deployment approach and Inter-vehicle scheme) to validate our proposed method through comparative studies. To evaluate the network performance evaluation, we compare two performance metrics, that is, Packets success delivery rate, and overall packets throughput under numerous vehicle densities. Using parked vehicles as temporal roadside gateways has demonstrated better results in comparison to intersection based RSUs deployment approach, and free vehicle to vehicle communication approach.
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spelling doaj.art-c55e4ee2fe8c428794a82b0fd8c19c8d2023-10-02T03:03:51ZengElsevierJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity2199-85312020-09-016737310.3390/joitmc6030073Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali CityTwahirwa Evariste0Willie Kasakula1James Rwigema2Raja Datta3African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things, University of Rwanda, Kigali 3900, RwandaAfrican Center of Excellence in Internet of Things, University of Rwanda, Kigali 3900, RwandaAfrican Center of Excellence in Internet of Things, University of Rwanda, Kigali 3900, RwandaDepartment of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur WB-721302, IndiaVehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a subclass of Mobile Ad Hoc Network that mainly consists of moving and/or stationary vehicles, connected through wireless protocols such as IEEE 802.11p and wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE). With the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), ordinary VANET has turned to the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), with additional social aspects, a novel extension themed SIoV has become common in urban areas. However vehicular wireless communication paradigms exhibit short radio communication. This problem has always been approached by supplementing moving vehicles with stationary Road Side Infrastructures, commonly known as roadside units (RSUs). The penetration of such RSUs on the global market is very low; furthermore, their procurement, deployment, and maintenance costs are prohibitively very high. All mentioned challenges have discouraged the widespread deployment of roadside infrastructure especially within large urban scenarios. With this research, we leverage on-street parked vehicles to allow them to exist as temporal gateways in the case study area. A novel modeling technique is introduced to enable a specific Percentage of parked vehicles to take up the role of roadside gateways for a certain percentage of their parking time. A mobile application is implemented that manages parking duration of the vehicle, based on the arrival, and departure time frames. Two more existing strategies were discussed (road-intersection RSUs deployment approach and Inter-vehicle scheme) to validate our proposed method through comparative studies. To evaluate the network performance evaluation, we compare two performance metrics, that is, Packets success delivery rate, and overall packets throughput under numerous vehicle densities. Using parked vehicles as temporal roadside gateways has demonstrated better results in comparison to intersection based RSUs deployment approach, and free vehicle to vehicle communication approach.https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/6/3/73SIoVIoVIoTVANETOSMSUMO
spellingShingle Twahirwa Evariste
Willie Kasakula
James Rwigema
Raja Datta
Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali City
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity
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IoV
IoT
VANET
OSM
SUMO
title Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali City
title_full Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali City
title_fullStr Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali City
title_full_unstemmed Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali City
title_short Optimal Exploitation of On-Street Parked Vehicles as Roadside Gateways for Social IoV—A Case of Kigali City
title_sort optimal exploitation of on street parked vehicles as roadside gateways for social iov a case of kigali city
topic SIoV
IoV
IoT
VANET
OSM
SUMO
url https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/6/3/73
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