Adaptation of the MCDS broadcasting protocol to VANET safety applications

Broadcast mechanisms are widely used in self-organizing wireless networks as support for other network layer protocols, in this paper we investigate the broadcast techniques proposed in literature for vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). For the safety applications the broadcast protocol has to guaranty the performance and the reliability. In this paper, we propose an implementation the minimum connected dominating set (MCDS), taking into count the safety applications constraint and the specifics of the VANET context. Simulation results demonstrate the good performances and the robustness of such protocol compared to other ones.