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A Comparative Study of Cluster-Head Selection Algorithms in VANET

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Proceedings of International Conference on IoT Inclusive Life (ICIIL 2019), NITTTR Chandigarh, India

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Abstract

VANET is a class of ad hoc networks where the ad hoc nodes are the vehicles and the collection of the vehicles and the Road Side Unit (RSU) makes a network. Clustering has been proved to be useful in vehicular ad hoc networks for a number of different issues like reducing the traffic in data propagation, managing the network, load balancing, and target tracking, efficient resource consumption. While designing clusters, there are a number of different concerns like designing stable clusters, deciding cluster members, using double head in one cluster, reducing control overhead but cluster head selection is the most critical concern. Although there are a number of research articles available that discusses the clustering algorithms being used in VANET in this paper, we have discussed for the first time in the literature about the various cluster-head selection schemes being used for VANETs. This paper is going to be a review of various algorithms used for cluster head selection in VANETs. In the end, few open research issues are also given which can be a help to the research community.

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    Poonam Thakur & Anita Ganpati

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  1. Department of IMCO, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Maitreyee Dutta

  2. Department of CSE, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

    C. Rama Krishna

  3. Department of CSE, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Rakesh Kumar

  4. Department of CSE, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Mala Kalra

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Thakur, P., Ganpati, A. (2020). A Comparative Study of Cluster-Head Selection Algorithms in VANET. In: Dutta, M., Krishna, C., Kumar, R., Kalra, M. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on IoT Inclusive Life (ICIIL 2019), NITTTR Chandigarh, India. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 116. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3020-3_13

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