An Efficient Routing Protocol for Connecting Vehicular Networks to the Internet

Abderrahim Benslimane (1) , Saman Barghi , Chadi Assi (2)

1 LIA - Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon
2 Concordia University [Montreal]

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) enable vehicles to communicate with each other (V2V) as well as with roadside infrastructure units (V2I). These units provide different servicessuchasdriverinformationsystemsandInternetaccess.Thehighspeedandhigh mobility of vehicles make it very challenging to establish and maintain a connection to these units. We introduce a new protocol which uses the characteristics of vehicle movementstopredictthefuturebehaviorofvehicles,andtoselectaroutewiththelongest lifetime to connect to the wired network. The proposed protocol aims at spreading the advertisementmessagesthroughmulti-hopswithoutfloodingthenetworkandperforming seamlesshandovers.Theproposedprotocolissimulatedbyconsideringmobilityscenarios, generatedbytheMOVEtool,inthens-2simulatortool.Thesimulationresultsshowthat the proposed scheme increases the packet delivery ratio and decreases the packet delay andoverhead

Mots clés: VANET; Vehicular networks; Routing; Location estimation; Inter-vehicle communication

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Abderrahim Benslimane, Saman Barghi, Chadi Assi. An Efficient Routing Protocol for Connecting Vehicular Networks to the Internet. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2011. ⟨hal-01339071⟩