Implementations Of The DTM, DADCQ And SLAB VANET Broadcast Protocols For The Ns-3 Simulator

• Other Authors: Alwakeel, Ahmed M. (author)
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Florida Atlantic University
• Subjects: Vehicular ad hoc networks (Computer networks) > Technological innovations.; Wireless communication systems > Technological innovations.; Mobile communication systems > Technological innovations.; Mobile computing.; Intelligent transportation systems > Mathematical models.; Routing protocols (Computer network protocols)
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004565; http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004565

This work presents the implementations of three adaptive broadcast protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) using the Network Simulator 3 (Ns-3). Performing real life tests for VANET protocols is very costly and risky, so simulation becomes a viable alternative technique. Ns-3 is one of the most advanced open source network simulators. Yet Ns-3 lacks implementations of broadcast protocols for VANET. We first implement the Distance to Mean (DTM) protocol, which uses the distance to mean to determine if a node should rebroadcast or not. We then implement the Distribution-Adaptive Distance with Channel Quality (DADCQ) protocol, which uses node distribution, channel quality and distance to determine if a node should favor rebroadcasting. The third protocol, Statistical Location-Assisted Broadcast protocol (SLAB), is an improvement of DADCQ which automates the threshold function design using machine learning. Our NS-3 implementations of the three protocols have been validated against their JiST/SWANS implementations. === Includes bibliography. === Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. === FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection