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Comparative Analysis of VANET Routing Protocols: On Road Side Unit Placement Strategies

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Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a communication paradigm where vehicles can communicate directly with other vehicles or via intermediate fixed architectures called as road side units (RSU). Generally, the density of vehicles vary from very dense to shallow depending on various factors and different scenarios of the roads. In cities the number of cars is high and on highways and specifically in rural areas the density of vehicles varies. Therefore, direct vehicle to vehicle communication faces many problems in communication due to outages. In such scenarios the intermediate infrastructure needs to play an important role. Various routing protocols are implemented for VANETs with variety of design goals. In this paper we investigate the performance of proactive and reactive routing protocols, namely destination sequence distance vector (DSDV) and ad-hoc on demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol, for various placement strategies of RSU based relays and in city scenario. The simulations were carried on NS2 which suggest that in various settings AODV perform better than DSDV routing protocol.

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This work is partially supported by Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan and the Transportation and Crowd Management Center of Research Excellence (TCMCORE) at Umm Al-Qura University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We also thank the Science and Technology Unit at Umm Al-Qura University for their continued logistic support.

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  1. Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Fayaz Ali & Faisal Karim Shaikh

  2. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Abdul Qadir Ansari

  3. Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Naeem Ahmed Mahoto

  4. TCMCORE, STU, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

    Faisal Karim Shaikh & Emad Felemban

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Ali, F., Shaikh, F.K., Ansari, A.Q. et al. Comparative Analysis of VANET Routing Protocols: On Road Side Unit Placement Strategies. Wireless Pers Commun 85, 393–406 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2745-z

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