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Emergency Messaging System for Urban Vehicular Networks Inspired by Social Insects’ Stigmergic Communication

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  • Ojilvie Avila-Cortés

    (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Tonantzintla 72840, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Saúl E. Pomares Hernández

    (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Tonantzintla 72840, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Julio César Pérez-Sansalvador

    (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Tonantzintla 72840, Mexico
    Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación, formerly Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (SECIHTI), Mexico City 03940, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Lil María Xibai Rodríguez-Henríquez

    (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Tonantzintla 72840, Mexico
    Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación, formerly Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (SECIHTI), Mexico City 03940, Mexico
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

For occupant safety in vehicular networks, emergency messages derived from vehicular incidents should be exchanged only during their validity period and in zones containing involved entities. Problems arise for mobile entities in vehicular networks that change their location over time, where data may be further communicated in out-of-context space and time. Current solutions extend from the naive assumption of notifying every entity in the network about emergencies with data flooding and clusters and by means of specific communication only in the affected zones—geo-routing—of incidents’ relative data. However, delivering useless data to uninvolved entities results in wasted resources and more overheads in the former cases and the work of obtaining knowledge and secondary site services from neighbors in the latter. In this paper, we propose that the common task of disseminating emergency messages for occupant safety among entities should only be communicated only where and when useful, namely, if spatio-temporal constraints apply regarding those incidents. Our solution is inspired by the communication of working social insects that exchange data through pheromones regardless of closeness or knowledge among colony members for food retrieval. The results show that communication based on space–time constraints makes better use of resources than other solutions.

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  • Ojilvie Avila-Cortés & Saúl E. Pomares Hernández & Julio César Pérez-Sansalvador & Lil María Xibai Rodríguez-Henríquez, 2025. "Emergency Messaging System for Urban Vehicular Networks Inspired by Social Insects’ Stigmergic Communication," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 17(3), pages 1-25, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:17:y:2025:i:3:p:117-:d:1606582
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