ACR: a cluster-based routing protocol for VANET

TL;DR

This paper introduces ACR, a cluster-based routing protocol for VANETs that uses mobility-based addressing and Hamming distance for efficient routing, outperforming AODV and DSDV in reachability and delay.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel VANET routing protocol utilizing mobility patterns and address-centric clustering, improving routing performance over existing protocols.

Findings

Enhanced routing reachability

Reduced end-to-end delay

Lower network traffic

Abstract

Clustering is a technique used in network routing to enhance the performance and conserve the network resources. This paper presents a cluster-based routing protocol for VANET utilizing a new addressing scheme in which each node gets an address according to its mobility pattern. Hamming distance technique is used then to partition the network in an address-centric manner. The simulation results show that this protocol enhances routing reachability, whereas reduces routing end-to-end delay and traffic received comparing with two benchmarks namely AODV and DSDV.