UAV-Assisted Data Dissemination in Delay-Constrained VANETs

Algorithm 3

Throughput Maximization Algorithm.

Input: A list V containing all the vehicles and UAVs in the network

Output: The selected path(1)Let denote the neighbor of node v;(2), which denotes the number of executions;(3)for each node do(4)  Send a request to its neighbors;(5)  Receive the channel information (CI) from its neighbors;(6)  Calculate according to CI;(7)  Calculate the approximate values of and according to ;(8)  Obtain the transmission rate and delay of the link between each neighbor and node , denoted as ;(9)end for(10)repeat(11)Calculate the transmission rate and delay for each node in the network, by adding the neighbor’s corresponding values to , denoted as ;(12)Apply the trim procedure to remove unnecessary values of node ;(13);(14)until (15)return A path containing a set of selected links