Affiliations: Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of
Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295,
Japan | Department of Information and Communication
Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi,
Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan | Department of Languages and Informatics Systems,
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona,
Spain | Department of Electronic and Telecommunication,
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Mother Teresa Square, Nr.4, Tirana,
Albania
Abstract: Vehicle Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is a kind of Mobile Ad-hoc Network
(MANET) that establishes wireless connection between cars. In VANETs and
MANETs, the topology of the network changes very often, therefore
implementation of efficient routing protocols is very important problem. In
MANETs, the Random Waypoint (RW) model is used as a simulation model for
generating node mobility pattern. On the other hand, in VANETs, the mobility
patterns of nodes is restricted along the roads, and is affected by the
movement of neighbour nodes. In this paper, we present a simulation system for
VANET called CAVENET (Cellular Automaton based VEhicular NETwork). In CAVENET,
the mobility patterns of nodes are generated by an 1-dimensional cellular
automata. We improved CAVENET and implemented some routing protocols. We
investigated the performance of the implemented routing protocols by CAVENET.
The simulation results have shown that DYMO protocol has better performance
than AODV and OLSR protocols.
