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PROBABILISTIC ROUTING FOR VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORK

  • US 20100080168A1
  • Filed: 09/29/2008
  • Published: 04/01/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) in which a packet is to be wirelessly transmitted from a first vehicle to a destination, a method of determining a second vehicle among a plurality of vehicles in the VANET to which the packet is to be forwarded from the first vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:

  • at the first vehicle, determining the second vehicle to forward the packet from the first vehicle based on pre-calculated expected latency data corresponding to the next vehicle, the pre-calculated expected latency data indicative of an expected latency for communication of the packet from the first vehicle to the destination if the packet is forwarded from the first vehicle to the second vehicle, the pre-calculated expected latency data having been calculated in advance of said step of determining the second vehicle during a pre-compute phase prior to run-time; and

    forwarding the packet from the source vehicle to the determined second vehicle.

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