Volume 10 - Issue 3
A Collaborative Framework for Traffic Information in Vehicular Adhoc Network Applications
- S. Manipriya
Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India-600041
grtmanipriya@gmail.com
- C. Mala
Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India-600041
mala@nitt.edu
- Samson Mathew
Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India-600041
sams@nitt.edu
Keywords: Intelligent Transportation Systems, VANET, Common Object Request Broker Architecture, Computer Vision Technologies, Traffic Management Applications.
Abstract
The rise in vehicular traffic in city roads and availability of limited resources to regulate and control
them are major challenges in real time traffic monitoring. The advance, evolving and best solution
in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to such challenges are the traffic management application
of Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET). The application requires several information related to
vehicular traffic or safety measures such as speed, traffic density, parking details etc., transmitted
across the co-operative vehicles of VANET. This information can also be enumerated from different
sources to ensure the backup or assurance of availability of information to improve the precision of
the application. This paper proposes a Traffic Information from Collaborative Framework (TICF)
that uses a novel Spatial Traffic Video Content Processing (STVCP) architecture for a VANET based
application. TICF ensures the concurrent availability of information to VANET application from the
most significant computer vision based infrastructure using STVCP through Common Object Request
Broker Architecture (CORBA). The performance of the proposed architecture and framework
are tested and analysed with simulated values of co-operative vehicles and real time traffic videos for
information. The results show an improved performance of VANET application without loss of any
valuable information.