Abstract:
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are special class of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(MANETs) formed by vehicles equipped with wireless devices. VANETs interface the few
aspects of ad hoc networks, wireless and cellular technology to form an intelligent transport
system by communication between vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to road side units. In
Vehicular Delay Tolerant Network (VDTN) messages without an end to end connection
can be delivered through store-carry and forward mechanisms. Probabilistic Routing
Protocol using History of Encounters and Transitivity (PRoPHET) is a well-known routing
protocol which is specifically proposed for delay tolerant networks that only utilizes
delivery predictability value of the encountered node to make a decision for message
forwarding. This protocol when it is applied for VDTN, it does not consider nodes
movement direction rather it considers node encounter or distances. This in turn leads the
delivery rate of packets to be minimized so in order to further improve the message delivery
ratio and to reduce the message overhead of PRoPHET, we propose PRoPHET with
includes nodes movement direction and buffer space as a parameter for message
forwarding. It considers nodes movement direction and destinations node buffer space as
a forwarding path selection parameter in addition to the present delivery predictability
parameters and by changing the weight of evaluation metrics. We also compare it to the
default PROPHET routing protocol through simulations. According to simulation results,
the proposed routing protocol has a greater delivery ratio and lower overhead ratio than
PRoPHET. As a results, it is reasonable to conclude that the proposed PROPHET routing
protocol better performance than default PRoPHET routing protocol.