A Reliable Geocast Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

• Published in: Wireless personal communications Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 281 - 295
• Main Authors: Rezaeifar, Zeinab, Hendessi, Faramarz, Ghahfarokhi, Behrouz Shahgholi, Gulliver, T. Aaron
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Engineering; Networks; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Routing; Rateless coding; Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET); Geocast; AODV

In addition to safety applications, new Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) applications such as onboard entertainment and traffic management are rapidly being developed. This has made geocast, i.e. the transmission of data over a geographic area, an important research topic. Often geocast is done over...