Performance analysis of an AODV in vehicular ad hoc network / Safinah Nawawi

Interest in the vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) field has rapidly growth nowadays. VANET provide the infrastructure for developing new systems to enhance users’ safety and comfort. In order to improve efficiency, there are many routing protocol proposed by researchers. However, due to the rapid changes in network topology the performance evaluation becomes an interested topic to be study. The study main objective of this study is to define the features of AODV routing protocol and to apply the AODV in VANET environment. The simulation is simulated using the traffic and network simulators (INET, SUMO, Veins and OMNET++). The performance was evaluated in terms of number of packet drop and throughput. The result indicates that the number of packet drop number of nodes does take effect on the performance. However, for packet drop the result will show consistent value at certain time due to the feature of AODV which is the maintenance of timer-based states in each node. Hence, the throughput performance is basically depends on total number of packet received at the destination.