Vehicular Communication Systems: Advantages and Challenges

Vehicular communication systems may be defined as the networks that are used by the
roadside units and vehicles for communication. The vehicular communication systems are
beneficial as they can help in reducing traffic congestion as well as accidents. The vehicular
communication systems help in providing traffic information and warnings. The deaths caused in
car crashes may be unavoidable. The main objective of vehicular communication systems is to
eliminate the cost of traffic collisions. Vehicle-to-vehicle or V2V is an automobile technology
that allows automobiles to talk to one another. The ad hoc networks that are formed by such
vehicular networks help in avoiding accidents and determining blind spots. The V2V
communication allows the vehicle in transit to send speed data and position over the network. It
is estimated that V2V communication is expected to be more effective than current original
equipment manufacturer for blind spot detection, lane departure and adaptive cruise control.
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication shall be the future. The vehicles shall be able to transmit
important information to the surrounding vehicles for improving the overall safety and efficiency
of the road system.
Wu, D., Zhang, Y., Bao, L., & Regan, A. (2013). Location-Based Crowdsourcing for Vehicular
Communication in Hybrid Networks. IEEE Transactions On Intelligent Transportation
Systems, 14(2), 837-846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tits.2013.2243437
The authors and researchers Wu et al. (2013) address the vehicular communication issue in urban
hybrid networks. The paper proposes an online probabilistic localization algorithm using Hybrid
Routing in vehicular ad hoc networks. This article reviews theories and literature such as types of
communication in hybrid ad hoc vehicular networks (VANETs). The article provides strong
evidence for verifying the performance of hybrid routing. This article shall also act as a piece of
foundation for hybrid communication networks in urban environments. There is a need to

evaluate more crowd vehicles and the urban environment related factors. This technology shall
be beneficial for the society as there is a need of robust and seamless strategy for managing
urban vehicular ad hoc networks.
Kurmis, M., Voznak, M., Kucinskas, G., Drungilas, D., Lukosius, Z., Jakovlev, S., & Andziulis,
A. (2017). Development of Method for Service Support Management in Vehicular
Communication Networks. Advances In Electrical And Electronic Engineering, 15(4).
http://dx.doi.org/10.15598/aeee.v15i4.2388
According to Kurmis et al. (2017), the quality of wireless communication channel needs to be
analysed. The main strength of the article is that it applies various context and theory such as
context data utility, vehicle clusters formation and evaluation of channel quality. The literature
shows that there is channel congestion and it arises due to mass data dissemination techniques.
The results of the article indicate that decision tree algorithm is most effective in managing the
channels. Three separate context data management algorithms for cloud computing, locally
stored data and data stores in other nodes are proposed. The article indicates that the performance
of accumulated value changes with time based on certain parameters namely- number of rejected
packets, channel bandwidth and quality parameters.
Aliyu, A., Abdullah, A., Kaiwartya, O., Cao, Y., Lloret, J., Aslam, N., & Joda, U. (2018).
Towards video streaming in IoT Environments: Vehicular communication
perspective. Computer Communications, 118, 93-119.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2017.10.003
As opined by Aliyu et al. (2017), the vehicles of the current times have the capability of
supporting real time multimedia. The article highlights a comprehensive review on video

streaming in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. The paper focuses on the vehicular
communication perspective with respect to 5G enabled technologies. The authors stress upon the
significance of video streaming in vehicular IoT environment. The main strength is that critical
review is performed with a focus on major functional model. A few supporting technologies for
video streaming are automotive sensors, traffic data analysis, RFID aided positing technologies,
vehicle for surveillance communication, vehicle to green communication and multiple others. It
is argued that mobility is one of the significant challenges faced in video streaming over mobile
networks. Further, robust traffic video encoding, real time traffic video relaying and other
challenges are also experienced in video streaming. However, a few authors claim that SSIM
index has more accuracy for the evaluation of video streaming performance. The article has
strong evidence and references that make the information credible.
Sulaiman, A., Kasmir Raja, S., & Park, S. (2013). Improving scalability in vehicular
communication using one-way hash chain method. Ad Hoc Networks, 11(8), 2526-2540.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2013.05.017
According to Sulaiman, Raja and Park (2013), road traffic can be managed using Vehicle-to-
Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications. This article states the
advantages for bringing VANET into practice. The authors have found that the successful
deployment of vehicular communication depends upon two factors-privacy and security. The
author provides strong literature that gives an in-depth analysis about the management of road
traffic with advanced technology. The findings of the article suggest that a large number of
messages need to be verified within a short span of time for improving the system performance.
This article proposed a secure message authentication scheme for an infrastructure based

vehicular communication. Therefore, there is sufficient evidence for using one-way hash chain
method for public or private key pairs for the vehicles.
Lien-Wu Chen, Sharma, P., & Yu-Chee Tseng. (2013). Dynamic Traffic Control with Fairness
and Throughput Optimization Using Vehicular Communications. IEEE Journal On
Selected Areas In Communications, 31(9), 504-512.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2013.sup.0513045
The living quality in modern cities is affected by traffic congestion. The vehicular pollution is
damaging the environment adversely. The traffic jams and idling vehicles emit greenhouse gases
such as nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide. Through vehicular communication,
the traffic controller can collect information about the vehicles before they pass the intersection.
The authors have proposed a dynamic traffic control framework that maximizes intersections
through utilization of lane positions and turning intentions. Thus, vehicular communication shall
help in reducing the idling of vehicles and traffic jams. The technology shall allocate green signs
to the traffic flows with higher passing rates vehicles as well as lower passing rates. This strategy
shall ensure fairness on the roads between higher and lower passing rate vehicles. Therefore,
with less traffic jams and idling of vehicles, there shall be decrease in greenhouse gas emissions
(Lien-Wu Chen, Sharma & Yu-Chee Tseng, 2013).
Bronzi, W., Frank, R., Castignani, G., & Engel, T. (2016). Bluetooth Low Energy performance
and robustness analysis for Inter-Vehicular Communications. Ad Hoc Networks, 37, 76-
86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2015.08.007
Bronzi et al. (2016) argue that Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is gaining recognition and
importance in the recent times. One of the recent additions in the smartphones are