A novel approach to efficient and reliable routing in Vanets

Abstract

Vehicular Ad hoc Network (Vanet) is one of the emerging technology to support safety, traffic monitoring and comfort related services. Vanet is a subclass of Manet but its topology changes rapidly and network gets disconnected frequently. The prevailing routing protocol of Manet is very much applicable to Vanet. Because of its frequently disconnecting routes it is difficult to design an efficient routing protocol. Proper design of routing protocol for Vanet makes the network a successful one. In this paper we bring a concept of introducing Mesh routers in the network thereby optimal route is selected which leads to a decrease in routing overhead, packet end-to-end delay and an increase in packet delivery ratio.