Evaluating VANET Routing Protocols for Auckland Area

Abstract

This paper provides a performance evaluation for several popular Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) protocols, namely AODV, DSR, OLSR, DSDV, GPSR, CBRP, and ZRP with Nakagami fading propagation model for Auckland area. The impact of the shape factor of the Nakagami model on the performance is investigated for each of the studied protocols, and for three types of traffic: low, medium and high traffic. Two real scenarios are considered: urban area (central of Auckland), with a maximum speed of 50 km/h, and motorway, with a maximum speed of 100 km/h. Results show that the performance of the protocols varies and depends on several factors including the number and the speed of vehicles