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  • Essay / vehicle networks - 554

    There is great potential to help drivers and improve road safety through vehicle networks (VANET). VANETs are ad hoc networks, where vehicles and bus stations interconnect wirelessly. They are characterized by the high mobility of the nodes and their intermittent links. As a result, it is difficult to design a network that meets application requirements efficiently and reliably. This article examines how packet forwarding, a fundamental aspect of packet-switched networks, is achieved in VANETs using the Velocity-Heading Routing Protocol (VHRP). VHRP is a multi-hop routing protocol, it uses intermediate vehicles to relay packets from source to destination [2]. Furthermore, it adopts clustering technique and vehicle movement prediction to provide stable communication links. As an ad hoc network, the flat structure of VANETs is not practical and does not scale well. A hierarchical architecture is essential to achieve a basic performance guarantee in ad hoc networks[3]. Thus, clustering is considered an effective method for constructing a hierarchical arc....