Drone of Gafsa: A Wind-powered UAV as Flying RSU in VANET
Keywords:
VANET, Road safety, UAV, RSU, Wind energyAbstract
Improving the road safety of vehicles, avoiding traffic jams, providing convenience and comfort to passengers and drivers, efficient travel are the objectives of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). All these objectives are achieved through effective communication between vehicles and other VANET components (Road Side Unit (RSU), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), etc...). The RSU or UAV sends (and / or) receives messages (to / from) vehicles within its coverage area. Drone can perform other operations related to road traffic management. However, it has a constraint related to its battery autonomy. Besides, all drones operating in smart cities for traffic management work in coordination with other drones or partially. We propose a new VANET architecture where UAV replaces RSU. In addition, we propose a charging mechanism using wind energy. The simulation results show an affinity between the values obtained following the use of RSU and UAV. As it shows acceptable and workable results for the proposed charging mechanism
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