Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City

Placements of Road Side Units (RSUs) are an important issue of vehicular networks in urban areas. The merged cost of procurement, installation, and maintenance of intelligent RSUs is high, and therefore, cost-effective deployment strategies are necessary. In this article, we propose a scheme that op...

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Main Authors: Evariste Twahirwa, Moyukh Laha, James Rwigema, Raja Datta
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Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2809184
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description Placements of Road Side Units (RSUs) are an important issue of vehicular networks in urban areas. The merged cost of procurement, installation, and maintenance of intelligent RSUs is high, and therefore, cost-effective deployment strategies are necessary. In this article, we propose a scheme that optimally deploys intelligent roadside units using a travel matrix scheme based on the classical delta strategy where urban vehicles are involved in RSUs communication in the course of their travel times. Four (4) vehicular communication modes are studied, namely, (a) travel matrix based on delta RSUs deployment communication, (b) road intersection-based RSUs deployment communication, (c) road segmentation, and (d) free vehicle-to-vehicle communication. A baseline algorithm is suggested to determine the optimal locations of RSUs in terms of their geographical positions. A travel matrix technique is proposed to trace vehicles’ routeways and travel times in some points of interest (POI). Our intention is to seek an approach that reduces the required number of RSUs and ensures greater network performance effectiveness in terms of packets delivery ratio, throughput, message delay, and jitter; from our study, travel matrix delta-based placement of RSUs becomes the best in our case study scenario. The simulation results indicate that the travel matrix deployment is a suitable deployment scheme in the case study area since it can reduce the number of RSUs while enhancing the vehicular communication abilities under different vehicle density scenarios.
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spelling doaj-art-7db3b5f878c746a5bc34ea0a2fa1ace32025-02-03T05:59:03ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation2042-31952022-01-01202210.1155/2022/2809184Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali CityEvariste Twahirwa0Moyukh Laha1James Rwigema2Raja Datta3University of Rwanda-College of Science and Technology (African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things)Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)-KharagpurUniversity of Rwanda-College of Science and Technology (African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things)Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)-KharagpurPlacements of Road Side Units (RSUs) are an important issue of vehicular networks in urban areas. The merged cost of procurement, installation, and maintenance of intelligent RSUs is high, and therefore, cost-effective deployment strategies are necessary. In this article, we propose a scheme that optimally deploys intelligent roadside units using a travel matrix scheme based on the classical delta strategy where urban vehicles are involved in RSUs communication in the course of their travel times. Four (4) vehicular communication modes are studied, namely, (a) travel matrix based on delta RSUs deployment communication, (b) road intersection-based RSUs deployment communication, (c) road segmentation, and (d) free vehicle-to-vehicle communication. A baseline algorithm is suggested to determine the optimal locations of RSUs in terms of their geographical positions. A travel matrix technique is proposed to trace vehicles’ routeways and travel times in some points of interest (POI). Our intention is to seek an approach that reduces the required number of RSUs and ensures greater network performance effectiveness in terms of packets delivery ratio, throughput, message delay, and jitter; from our study, travel matrix delta-based placement of RSUs becomes the best in our case study scenario. The simulation results indicate that the travel matrix deployment is a suitable deployment scheme in the case study area since it can reduce the number of RSUs while enhancing the vehicular communication abilities under different vehicle density scenarios.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2809184
spellingShingle Evariste Twahirwa
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Raja Datta
Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City
Journal of Advanced Transportation
title Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City
title_full Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City
title_fullStr Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City
title_full_unstemmed Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City
title_short Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City
title_sort travel matrix enabled delta based roadside units deployment for vehicular ad hoc networks a case of kigali city
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2809184
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