On the Design of Efficient Hierarchic Architecture for Software Defined Vehicular Networks

• Main Authors: Muhammad Adnan, Jawaid Iqbal, Abdul Waheed, Noor Ul Amin, Mahdi Zareei, Shidrokh Goudarzi, Asif Umer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: VANETs; QoS; SDVN; traffic management; scheduling
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/4/1400

Modern vehicles are equipped with various sensors, onboard units, and devices such as Application Unit (AU) that support routing and communication. In VANETs, traffic management and Quality of Service (QoS) are the main research dimensions to be considered while designing VANETs architectures. To cope with the issues of QoS faced by the VANETs, we design an efficient SDN-based architecture where we focus on the QoS of VANETs. In this paper, QoS is achieved by a priority-based scheduling algorithm in which we prioritize traffic flow messages in the safety queue and non-safety queue. In the safety queue, the messages are prioritized based on deadline and size using the New Deadline and Size of data method (NDS) with constrained location and deadline. In contrast, the non-safety queue is prioritized based on First Come First Serve (FCFS) method. For the simulation of our proposed scheduling algorithm, we use a well-known cloud computing framework <i>CloudSim</i> toolkit. The simulation results of safety messages show better performance than non-safety messages in terms of execution time.