The Role of Parked Cars in Content Downloading for Vehicular Networks

When it comes to content access using intervehicle communications (IVC), data will mostly flow through roadside units (RSUs) that deployed in cities. Unfortunately, the RSU coverage is expected to be rather scattered. Instead of relying on RSUs only, this paper investigates the possibility of exploiting parked vehicles to extend the RSU service coverage. The authors' approach leverages optimization models aiming at maximizing the freshness of content that downloaders retrieve, the efficiency in the utilization of radio resources, and the fairness in exploiting the energy resources of parked vehicles. The latter is constrained to not excessively drain parked vehicle batteries. The approach provides an estimate of the system performance, even in those cases where users may only be willing to lease a limited amount of their battery capacity to extend RSU coverage. The optimization-based results are validated by comparing them against ns-3 simulations. Performance evaluation highlights that the use of parked vehicles enhances the efficiency of the content downloading process by 25%–35% and can offload more than half the data traffic from RSUs with respect to the case where only moving cars are used as relays. Such gains in performance come at a small cost in terms of battery utilization for the parked vehicles, and they are magnified when a backbone of parked vehicles can be formed.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission of IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Malandrino, F
  • Casetti, C
  • Chiasserini, C
  • Sommer, C
  • Dressler, F
• Publication Date: 2014-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 4606-4617
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 63
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
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Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric batteries; Mobile communication systems; Optimization; Parking; Vehicle to infrastructure communications; Vehicle to vehicle communications
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01545372
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 26 2014 3:05PM