Towards a Grid-based approach to Traffic Routing in VANET

Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is a wireless network that is formed on the fly between a collection of cars connected by wireless links. VANET has gained a great amount of attention during recent years and is used for a large number of safety (accident warning, weather notification) and non-safety (multimedia, gaming) applications. One of the most promising areas where VANET can be proved to be very useful is Traffic Management. Various approaches that have been tried for Traffic Management ranges from those that takes assistance from roadside infrastructure [7], [8] to purely infrastructure-less approaches [6]. In this paper we have addressed a very important issue of Traffic Management. Our proposed approach provides assistance in traffic routing by integrating VANET and Grid Computing. By using our approach a driver can always find out a feasible route to reach its destination based on congestion all around the path from its current position to destination. The proposed approach is scalable, simple and can be easily adapted to run in any environment. KeywordsVANET, Traffic Management, Grid Computing, Traffic Routing, Ad hoc Network,