City-Obstacles Impact on OLSR-Based Routing Protocols (2015)

Conference Paper

Belghith, Abdelfettah . 2015

• Publication Work Type: Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 9066, pp. 47-59, 2015.
• Conference Name: Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2015, Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Springer, LectureNotes in Computer Science (LNCS) Volume 9066, pp. 47-59, 2015.
• Conference Location: Sousse, Tunisia
• Conference Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015
• Sponsoring Organization: Springer

Publication Abstract

Vehicle mobility in presence of obstructing obstacle is one of the main problems limiting the deployment of vehicular ad hoc networks. Indeed, in such a highly dynamic network, underlying routing protocols struggle to find valid routes towards destination nodes. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of Cartography Enhanced OLSR with obstacle awareness protocol (CE-OLSR-OA) as well as Position based OLSR (P-OLSR) and OLSR with movement prediction (OLSR-MOPR) routing protocols in the context of an urban VANET with obstructing obstacles. In these three OLSR-based routing protocols, the awareness about nodes locations is differently utilized in order to sustain the stability of selected routes. Conducted simulations show the superiority of CE-OLSR compared to OLSR-MOPR and P-OLSR in terms of routes validity, throughput and end-to-end delay metrics. Furthermore, we show that CE-OLSR is more suitable to real time applications than OLSR-MOPR.