Performance evaluation of an IoV-based intersection traffic control approach

Abstract

With the recent advances in Internet of vehicles (IoV), the traditional traffic control problem at intersections is being revisited to cope with the future intelligent transportation systems. In this paper, we introduce the performance evaluation of a distributed IoV-based intersection traffic control protocol. Extensive simulations have been conducted using various real traffic scenarios to evaluate the efficiency and the dynamics of the newly proposed traffic control approach that gives the intelligent vehicles full autonomous control of crossing intersections using vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. Simulation results using the tools OMNet++, VEINS, and SUMO showed that the new approach is a viable alternative and addition to the existing traffic control approaches.