Abstracto

Performance Enhancement of VANETs Using Cluster Based Routing

M.Hari Prasad , P. Kowsalya

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a promising technology to enable the communications among vehicles and between vehicles and road side units (RSU). A new algorithm to construct Stable clusters is introduced to perform cluster based routing (CBR) and to improve the performance of VANETs. The stable clustering algorithm groups the nodes based on the position and direction information to form stable clusters and elects cluster head based on a multi-metric algorithm. This method reduces the overhead of re-clustering and lead to an efficient hierarchical network topology. The proposed system is evaluated using simulation software NS2 (Network Simulator 2). The performance parameters include throughput, propagation delay and average cluster change per vehicle. Simulation results reveal that there is increase in throughput, and decrease in propagation delay and average cluster change per vehicle.