ABSTRACT
The Intelligent transportation system (ITS) has changed how the transportation system was looked before. Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) have become prominent communication technology for connected vehicles, assisting ITS in improving safety and traffic situations. However, the network congestion caused by the heavy data traffic can lead to excessive inaccuracy and failure of such applications. With the help of channel congestion control schemes VANETs can be made more effective and reliable. To this end, we present a swarm intelligence-based congestion control scheme named Swarm-based Intelligent Beacon Rate Adaption Scheme (S-IBRA) in this chapter. The simulation results and the comparative analysis of the proposed scheme S-IBRA, demonstrate its effectiveness in terms usage of channel (channel occupancy) and efficient beacon rate adaption.
