Mitigating Broadcast Storm Problems in Vanets

For efficient data dissemination over a network, the most commonly used solution is broadcasting the messages by flooding the data over the network. Issues concerned with flooding are redundant rebroadcasting of messages and collision leading to broadcast storm problem. This paper proposes a strategy to overcome the broadcast storm problem in an Vanets using the bounding algorithm. Our analysis and simulation results illustrate better performance by a hybrid approach presented by combining the advantages of distance-based and counter-based schemes in terms of reachability and saving of rebroadcasting which performs efficiently.