Autonomous Vehicles, Volume 2

6Effective Congestion Control Mechanism for Smart Vehicles Using Edge Computing in VANET

Poorva Shukla¹*, Sunita Varma² and Ravindra Petel³

¹Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIST, Indore, India

²Department of Information Technology, SGSITS, Indore (M.P.), India

³Department of Computer Application, UIT, Bhopal (M.P.), India

Abstract

In the last few decades VANETs (Vehicular ad hoc network) is one of the growing fields in the research area. VANET is the main important part of ITS (Intelligent transportation system). There are various technical challenges faced by VANET like traffic accidents, fuel consumption and environmental pollution. Congestion control is one of the serious problems faced by VANET. In VANET vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to roadside and roadside to vehicle communication is possible. During communication between vehicles an amount of information is shared among the vehicles. Now there are countless vehicles moving on the road which share their information among other vehicles, due to which congestion is occurring in the network. So we need a mechanism which controls congestion and reduces the network congestion problem, which occurs due to fast-moving vehicles and dynamic changes in the topological environment. This paper presents a VARC & VFMC (Vehicle Registration Routing Communication and Validation Filtering Message Alert Caching services) algorithm for congestion control. Unlike most of the existing algorithms VARC & VFMC capitalize the merit ...