Towards Hierarchical Autonomous Context-Aware Distributed Clustered Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET)

未来的网络必须以前所未有的方式服务于人类的需求。网络将在动态环境中运行，与用户和其他网络交互，响应恶意攻击，但具有最佳和自我修复的特性，同时将用户排除在错综复杂的细节之外。未来的网络架构将建立在自治性、分布性和智能性的基础上。要实现这一点，我们必须探索和研究如何设计、观察和与未来网络交互的新方法。现代网络，如车载自组织网络(VANET)，提供了对未来网络担忧的一瞥。VANET是一项新的网络倡议，誓言通过将一系列现代无线技术连接在一起并应用于道路基础设施来提高交通安全。VANET倡议旨在拯救人类生命，并承诺经济、环境友好和无拥堵的高速公路。从VANET的规模来看，它预计将形成一个覆盖整个大陆的网络，每秒都有数百万辆汽车加入、互动和离开这个网络。当前和经典的网络体系结构无法满足预期的VANET的规模和动态。这项研究的直接目标是解决复杂的VANET可扩展性问题。该方案提出了通过动态地从局部环境中提取特征来将VANET划分为更小的局部可管理的簇的思想。自主性、分布性和智能性是建议的集群背后的独特概念。本研究提出了一种模仿本地化交通环境本质的自主集群框架。集群化VANET不仅将在减少道路死亡和减少碳排放方面发挥作用，还代表着朝着自主智能网络的宏伟愿景迈出的一步。

Future networks must serve human demands in ways never before thought possible. Networks will operate in dynamic environments, interact with users and other networks, respond to malicious attacks and yet, have properties of optimality and self-healing while keeping the user out of convoluted details. Future network architectures will be built on a foundation of autonomy, distribution, and intelligence. To achieve that, we must explore and examine new ways of looking at how we design, observe, and interact with future networks. Modern networks like Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) offer a glimpse on future network apprehensions. VANET is a new network initiative vowing to improve transportation safety by applying a range of modern wireless technologies connecting vehicles together and to road infrastructure. VANET initiative aims at saving human lives and pledges economical, environmentally-friendly, and congestion-free highways. To put VANET's size into perspective, it is expected to form a continent-wide network with millions of cars joining, interacting, and leaving the network every second. Current and classical network architectures fail to serve the scale and dynamics of the expected VANET. The immediate goal of this research is to resolve the complex VANET scalability problem. This proposal presents the idea of dividing up VANET into smaller localized manageable clusters by dynamically extracting characteristics from its localized environment. Autonomy, distribution, and intelligence are the unique concepts behind the proposed clustering. This research introduces an autonomous clustering framework that mimics the essence of the localized transportation environments. Clustering VANET would not only play a role in decreasing road fatalities and reducing carbon emissions, it also presents a step towards the grand vision of autonomous intelligent networks.