VC³: A Novel Vehicular Compatibility-Based Cooperative Communication in 5G Networks

This letter explores the challenges of high mobility networks in 5G communications and introduces a novel and efficient clustering scheme. We propose VC^{3} : vehicular compatibility-based cooperative communications to form clusters having longer and stable connections, which reduces coverage holes and extends the network access. Our exhaustive simulations in real OpenStreetMap traffic traces in the simulation for urban mobility (SUMO) and the network simulator (NS3) with LENA module demonstrate exceptional results of having more than 80% packet delivery ratio and 70%90% success probability with only 1 s delay. Moreover, the proposed VC^{3} outperforms two existing solutions (MMZ and Two-Way clustering) and achieves 24 Mbps higher throughput.