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Road Aware Geographical Routing Protocol Coupled with Distance, Direction and Traffic Density Metrics for Urban Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

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The new information and communication technologies have changed the trend of communication in all fields. The transportation sector is one of the emerging field, where vehicles are communicating with each other or with infrastructure for different safety and comfort applications in the network. Vehicular ad hoc networks is one of the emerging multi-hop communication type of intelligent transportation field to deal with high mobility and dynamic vehicular traffic to deliver data packets in the network. The high mobility and dynamic topologies make the communication links unreliable and leads to frequent disconnectivity, delay and packet dropping issues in the network. To address these issues, we proposed a road aware geographical routing protocol for urban vehicular ad hoc networks. The proposed routing protocol uses distance, direction and traffic density routing metrics to forward the data towards the destination. The simulation results explore the better performance of proposed protocol in terms of data delivery, network delay and compared it with existing geographical routing protocols.

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The authors would like to extend their sincere appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this research. The research is supported by Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) and conducted in collaboration with Research Management Center (RMC) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) under VOT NUMBER: QJ130000.2528.06H00.

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    Kashif Naseer Qureshi & Abdul Hanan Abdullah

  2. College of Applied Studies and Community Services, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Ayman Altameem

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Qureshi, K.N., Abdullah, A.H. & Altameem, A. Road Aware Geographical Routing Protocol Coupled with Distance, Direction and Traffic Density Metrics for Urban Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 92, 1251–1270 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3604-2

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