A study segment routing protocpls for vehicular ad-hoc networks in urban areas

Abstract

Vehicular ad-hoc networks are specialised as networks with the participations of vehicles as the main components. In these networks there are no fixed topologies due to high mobility and high density of nodes. Hence, a flexible and appropriate routing protocol is mandatory for these networks to operate effectively to avoid route breaking and reducing of service quality. Since numerous routing protocols have been developed for achieving this task, the purpose of this bachelor thesis is to study, analyse and evaluate the performance on one of these routing protocols: Road-based Vehicular Traffic (RBVT) routing protocol, which was originally design to take the advantages of vehicles connectivity. Considering several metrics such as the mean delivery ratio of data packet, delay time and path length, RBVT is the most appropriate protocol for networks in urban areas, compared with Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Geographic Source Routing protocol (GSR) and Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (GPSR).