Efficient Road Status Monitoring in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: An Optimization Framework

The number of cars on the road in the world is currently increasing. With the widespread usage of vehicles, a slew of issues inevitably arises. The damage of the road can be annoying to the drivers, and congestion in traffic can waste both fuel and time. It's worth noting that one of the primary causes of car damage and aging is the state of the road surface. Driving comfort and vehicle controllability can be harmed by poor road conditions. As a result, the system of monitoring road status is crucial to reducing congestion in traffic, reducing accident rates, and protecting cars from hazardous road conditions. This paper proposes using a framework based on cloud-fog network architecture, The fog computing network architecture is a dispersed network that may process data at the fog layer to minimize cloud computing's computational load. In addition, using small and large threshold values ( ), Main Authority (MA) deals with the major conditions, and the Sub Authority (SA) deals with the minor conditions.