Vehicle Clustering and Resource Allocation Algorithm Based on Cellular Network

Abstract

As a special Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) plays a very important role in the future intelligent transportation system. In order to solve the problems of unstable communication connection, fast network topology change and low communication resource utilization caused by high vehicle mobility in VANET, a low-complexity resource allocation algorithm based on vehicle cluster is proposed. Firstly, considering the speed, position and moving direction of the vehicles, a vehicle clustering algorithm based on movement consistency is proposed to cluster the vehicles and keep the vehicle cluster stable. Secondly, a low-complexity resource allocation algorithm is proposed to improve the utilization rate of communication resources, which is constrained by the interference caused by the vehicle clusters to the cellular users. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has low complexity and can better maintain the stability of vehicle clusters and improve the system capacity in the common complex Internet of Vehicles (IoV) scenarios in cities.