Platoon-Based Driving Protocol for Multimedia Transmission Over VANET
Abstract
Multimedia content will be one of the main services of vehicular networks (VANETs) and is becoming a reality in the environment of smart cities, ranging from safety traffic warnings to live entertainment, in addition to being fundamental to the development of autonomous vehicles. However, VANETs have a dynamic network topology with the short contact time, which leads to communication flaws and delays, increasing packet loss, and decreasing the Quality of Experience (QoE) of transmitted videos. To cope with this, neighbor vehicles moving in the same direction and wishing to cooperate should form a platoon, where platoon members act as a relay node to forward video packets. This master's dissertation introduces a Game Theory approach for Platoon-based driving (GT4P - Game Theory for Platoon) for video dissemination services in urban and highway VANET scenarios. GT4P encourages cooperation between neighbor vehicles by offering a reward (money or coupon) for vehicles participating in the platoon. Simulation results confirm the efficiency of GT4P for ensuring video transmissions with high QoE support compared to existing platoon-based driving protocols.
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