A Mechanism for Cooperation and Coalition of Vehicles Based on Game Theory for Video Transmission in VANETs
Abstract
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) promise a wide scope of multimedia services ranging from security and traffic announcements to entertainment and advertising videos. However, the transmission of real time videos over VANET must consider the Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements, and also the dynamic network topology with short contact time. To mitigate such problems, neighbors vehicles moving in the same direction and wishing to cooperate may collaborate to form a platoon, and thus such vehicles move with similar speed. This paper introduces a platoon mechanism based on game theory for video transmission with QoE support, called of TJ2P. TJ2P mechanism selects vehicles to form a platoon with similar speeds and appropriate distance to transmit videos. Simulation results confirm the efficiency of the TJ2P mechanism to ensure video transmission with adequate QoE, without increasing the fuel consumption and CO2 emission compared to BLR and XLinGO protocols.
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