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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2009
Ratul K. Guha, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Wai Chen, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Jasmine Chennikara-varghese, Somerset, NJ (US);
Stephanie Demers, Westfield, NJ (US);
Ratul K. Guha, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Wai Chen, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Jasmine Chennikara-Varghese, Somerset, NJ (US);
Stephanie Demers, Westfield, NJ (US);
Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for high rate data delivery in a multi-hop vehicular network comprises at each source vehicle, initiating a packet having a flow tag, assigning an identifier of the content and the current location to the flow tag, and forwarding the packet; at each destination vehicle, setting a flow request and broadcasting at the current intersection; further on movement, setting the flow request at the new intersection, and at each intersection, selecting a header vehicle at the intersection, computing backlog and congestion indicators and listening for broadcasts with a matrix and the flow requests at the header vehicle, determining if the matrix is present, updating the matrix in accordance with the backlog and congestion indicators if the matrix is present, initializing the matrix and estimating the delay on the outgoing road segments if the matrix is not present, forwarding the packet flow, and broadcasting the matrix from the header vehicle.