A multimetric, map-aware routing protocol for VANETs in urban areas

In recent years, the general interest in routing for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has increased notably. Many proposals have been presented to improve the behavior of the routing decisions in these very changeable networks. In this paper, we propose a new routing protocol for VANETs that uses...

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Autores: Tripp Barba, Carolina|||0000-0002-4811-0247, Urquiza Aguiar, Luis, Aguilar Igartua, Mónica|||0000-0002-6518-888X, Rebollo Monedero, David|||0000-0002-0783-2382, Cruz Llopis, Luis Javier de la|||0000-0003-4171-8310, Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad|||0000-0003-3263-0122, Aguilar-Calderón, José Alfonso
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/21733
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/21733
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140202199
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mobile communication systems
Vehicular ad hoc networks
Multi-metric forwarding decisions
Geographic routing protocol
Comunicacions mòbils, Sistemes de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Comunicacions mòbils
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Sumario:In recent years, the general interest in routing for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has increased notably. Many proposals have been presented to improve the behavior of the routing decisions in these very changeable networks. In this paper, we propose a new routing protocol for VANETs that uses four different metrics. which are the distance to destination, the vehicles’ density, the vehicles’ trajectory and the available bandwidth, making use of the information retrieved by the sensors of the vehicle, in order to make forwarding decisions, minimizing packet losses and packet delay. Through simulation, we compare our proposal to other protocols, such as AODV (Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector), GPSR (Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing), I-GPSR (Improvement GPSR) and to our previous proposal, GBSR-B (Greedy Buffer Stateless Routing Building-aware). Besides, we present a performance evaluation of the individual importance of each metric to make forwarding decisions. Experimental results show that our proposed forwarding decision outperforms existing solutions in terms of packet delivery.