VANET routing algorithm performance comparison using ns-3 and SUMO

Self-driving car is a rapid evolving technology and becomes one of the hot research topics. Car-to-infrastructure or car-to-car communication provides many benefits to both car drivers and self-driving logics. VANET (Vehicular ad hoc networks) is classified as a special case of MANET. In order to communicate between cars and road infrastructures, VANET needs an ad hoc routing algorithm. This paper compares and analyzes the performance of the popular ad hoc routing algorithms in VANET. This paper uses ns-3 network simulator and SUMO for modeling the real traffic road and cars. The simulation results indicates that AODV provides a reasonable performance and adapts well for driving at high speed.