Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Routing Protocols for Multimedia Transmission in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

摘要

Mobile ad hoc networks are becoming very popular in wireless communications due to the latest advances in technology. This has allowed millions of people to communicate with each other over wireless networks using mobile devices. Moreover, the latest models of many vehicles are equipped with communication devices which allow them to form a new type of ad hoc wireless networks, called Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs). The main goal of VANETs is to increase the road safety and to reduce the human casualties by communicating critical data between vehicles thereby facilitating time-critical actions, as well as, entertaining the passengers. In this paper, we study the performance of many hybrid routing protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks to communicate multimedia traffic.