Rourkela: National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela) researchers have received a patent for a model that aims to improve how vehicles communicate with each other in the future.
The patent, titled “Adaptive Contention Window Optimisation in VANETs using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Performance Model”, has been filed by Dr. Arun Kumar, Assistant Professor; Prof. Bibhudatta Sahoo, Professor, and Dr. Lopamudra Hota, Research Graduate, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, NIT Rourkela. Their work focuses on addressing a key challenge in vehicular communication systems, known as Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, or VANETs.
The concept behind VANETs is that vehicles that are in proximity to each other will in the future be able to communicate directly to