Modern autonomous cars will have self-driving capabilities and be more energy efficient to support smart cities and green environment concepts.

In this project, we are developing routing protocols and broadcasting strategies for vehicular ad-hoc networks. Efficient cross-layer routing provides fast and correct dissemination of messages from one vehicle to another vehicle or to other infrastructures. Another research problem we're investigating in this project is a broadcasting storm problem, where many vehicles transmit their information over the wireless medium and create congestion and blockages. This may occur in the application where advertisement messages may have been broadcast from vehicles. We used Genetic Algorithms to optimise the broadcast storm problem and provide a solution for this issue.

Noteable outcomes

The project was completed with two PhD completions.