Cluster-based location routing algorithm for vehicle to vehicle communication

We present a new cluster-based location routing (CBLR) algorithm for vehicle to vehicle communication. We have evaluated the performance of two reactive (non-positional-based) routing algorithms, dynamic source routing (DSR) and ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing (AODV), and one positional-based approach, cluster-based location routing algorithm (CBLR). A microscopic traffic model, developed in OPNET, has been used to simulate the mobility of the vehicles on a motorway. Finally, several metrics have been considered to evaluate the performance of the algorithms. Results show that clustering improves scalability and the nature of position-based routing algorithms such as CBLR can improve the performance of AODV and DSR in terms of EED and delivery ratio.