Throughput and Outage Probability-Aware Intelligent Swarm-Based Multi-Hop Selection in Vehicular Network

Cooperation is an emerging paradigm for improving spatial differentiation in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs). Hence, many network solutions are motivated through cooperative communications for boosting VANET efficiency regarding specific network constraints like energy efficiency, network capacity, and outage probability. The main intention of this paper is to design and develop an optimization model for selecting the minimum number of multi-hops between the source and destination for the cooperative VANET networks. The first phase has a first-time slot, where a signal is transmitted by the source to the cooperative nodes (its relays) and their equivalent destination. The main problem considered here is to optimally select the number of hops or relays that are adaptable for communication, to solve the multi-objective functions concerning the target throughput and outage probability. The adoption of new Dimension-based Cat Swarm Optimization (D-CSO) is the main contribution here to optimally select the multi-hops among source and destination. Through the performance evaluation, it is observed that the designed model has achieved networks-wide fairness performance and a good convergence rate.