Prediction-based Clustering Scheme for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are a subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) and the general characteristics of VANETs are typically inherited from MANETs. However, VANETs exhibit several unique characteristics such as the large scale of the network, high mobility, and dynamic network topology. Hence, VANETs unique characteristics might cause frequent disconnections of the communication links resulting in an increased overhead of the communication protocols in terms of extra messages and time delay. Therefore, VANETs face diverse considerable challenges that instigate developing efficient communication protocols.