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Using passive RFID tags for vehicle-assisted data dissemination in intelligent transportation systems


Abstract:

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in the form of vehicular adhoc networks (VANETs) have engaged significant interest from the academic, industry and government sec...Show More

Abstract:

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in the form of vehicular adhoc networks (VANETs) have engaged significant interest from the academic, industry and government sectors. Data dissemination is of the utmost importance for the day-to-day operation of ITS applications. Numerous standards, architectures and communication protocols have been anticipated for data diffusion in ITS applications. However, existing schemes are based on an essential condition that the relaying vehicle has to be equipped with an active communication module - termed Intelligent Vehicle (IV). One of the major drawbacks of these schemes is that they do not exploit the potentially large number of non-intelligent vehicles (non-IVs), i.e., the vehicles without any active communication module for relaying and diffusion purposes. In this paper, we fill this gap by proposing a novel data dissemination scheme utilizing a non-IV to act as a data ferry. The non-IV is tagged with a low-cost passive RFID tag whereas the IV is equipped with an embedded RFID reader. The non-IVs ubiquitously store and carry the events in the passive tags, as recorded by the IV or by the roadside equipment, as they maneuver around the city blocks. Two system configurations, namely co-operative and stand-alone with and without vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) support, respectively, are also proposed. Simulation results show the proposed scheme's effectiveness and performance superiority over the existing active-based data dissemination methods.
Date of Conference: 20-23 October 2009
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 18 December 2009
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Conference Location: Zurich, Switzerland

I. Introduction

Technology has made its way into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) as the Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) paradigms [1]. These paradigms rely on active communication and sensing, e.g., WiFi, WiMax, short-range radar, active RFID tags, etc. The active communication links are employed in two generally diverse, yet mutual schemes to acquire events information from outside sources. The first scheme is the vehicular ad-hoc wireless communication, i.e., the V2V model and the second scheme makes use of fixed infrastructure-based wireless communication, i.e., the V2I model. Diverse approaches have been investigated in the literature, employing these schemes for efficient data dissemination. Sophisticated routing, (e.g., location-aided routing [2], trajectory based routing[3], gossiping-based routing [4] and flooding), relaying protocols [5], [6], opportunistic and delaytolerant approaches, (e.g., spray-and-wait[7], epidemic [8] and message ferrying methods [9]) and medium access protocols [10], [11] have been studied extensively in the context of ITS.

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