End to End VANET/ IoT Communications A 5G Smart Cities Case Study Approach

This paper investigates the infrastructure to vehicle and infrastructure to cloud connectivity and reliability in the vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). A key focus of this work is to investigate protocols that will enhance real-time, robust and reliable communication methods, and complement autonomous vehicles' navigation experiences within smart cities. The main areas of study include highway infrastructure that include the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) to the Cloud (web service) and vice-versa. The pertinent cloud-based data will be communicated to subscribed vehicles (with password access) to complete the V2I and I2V communication cycle. The data collected from the WSN is communicated to the cloud via XML over XMPP, zero configuration, and mDNS protocols. The use of the XMPP protocol to communicate data to the cloud data repository represents a novel approach to IoT harmonization for this particular infrastructure to cloud/I2V application.