A survey and comparative study of QoS aware broadcasting techniques in VANET

Abstract

Vehicular ad hoc networks are a special type of MANET providing vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to roadside wireless communications. Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) have been designed in order to assist drivers on the road with a variety of applications especially in preventing danger and saving lives. For such ends, broadcasting is a suitable scheme to convey emergency messages dissemination to the entire network. Broadcasting in VANETs is a challenging task due to the specific VANET features such as nodes mobility and frequent topology changes. VANET applications, especially those related with human life saving, are delay sensitive and have specific requirements in terms of performances and QoS. A QoS aware broadcasting scheme relies on different factors and has to deal with hard constraints. In this paper, we introduce a survey of broadcasting in vehicular networks and discussion of different performance and QoS related to broadcasting issues. Furthermore, a comparative study of QoS aware broadcasting protocols classifying them according to different taxonomies is elaborated. This survey specifies QoS requirements and performance metrics of VANET services. Furthermore, this survey focuses on QoS aware broadcasting as a challenging problem regrading VANET characteristics.