“Experimental analysis of AODV and LBV_AODV with varying vehicle mobility in vehicular scenario”

Vehicular Adhoc network has gained popular attention in last few years due to the provision of safety and comfort related applications. VANETs are direct offshoot of MANETs but with unique characteristics like high speed, dynamic changing topology and difficult communication environment. Due to these unique features, routing in vehicular network has always been a challenging issue but besides efficient routing very less attention is being paid in the area of load balancing. So in this study, load optimization/management in VANET is focused and a new protocol LBV_AODV which is an extension of AODV is introduced and compared with AODV with new metric i.e. local delay which uses interface queue length. The comparison is done with varying vehicle mobility. The protocol is simulated on Ns2.34 and the performance analysis shows that the new protocol is better than AODV in terms of PDR and EED and PLR.