Assessment of revenue in roadside units (RSU) in traffic management

Vehicular networks, besides supporting safety-oriented applications, are nowadays expected to provide effectivecommunication infrastructure also for supporting leisure-oriented application including content sharing, gaming andInternet access on the move. This work focuses on Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) scenarios, where multiple contentproviders own a physical infrastructure of Road Side Units (RSUs) which they use to sell contents to moving vehicles.This paper studies a relevant problem in VANETs, known as the deployment of Roadside Units (RSUs). A RSU is anaccess points, used together with the vehicles, to allow information dissemination in the roads. Knowing where to placethese RSUs so that a maximum number of vehicles circulating is covered is a challenge. We model the problem as aMaximum Coverage with Time Threshold Problem (MCTTP), and use a genetic algorithm to solve it.

Keywords:

Vehicular Network , RSU , Traffic Management , VANET