Analyzing Routing Protocol Performance with NCTUns for Vehicular Networks

Eric Gamess   and Moises Chachati

doi:10.17485/ijst/2014/v7i9.9

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Analyzing Routing Protocol Performance with NCTUns for Vehicular Networks

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2014/v7i9.9

Year: 2014, Volume: 7, Issue: 9, Pages: 1391–1402

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Analyzing Routing Protocol Performance with NCTUns for Vehicular Networks

Eric Gamess^1* and Moises Chachati²

1 Escuela de Computacion, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela;eric.gamess@ciens.ucv.ve
2 LACORE, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Vehicular networks are an emerging field of study that brings many new features to support road transportation. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of three well-known routing protocols in vehicular networks, using NCTUns, a popular network simulator. We study those protocols by changing different metrics such as node mobility, number of vehicles, traffic pattern, and number of RSUs. We also report the total elapsed time for simulations and memory consumption with the aim of guiding researchers in their selection of an adequate routing protocol for large simulation scenarios using NCTUns in vehicular networks.

Keywords: NCTUns, Network Simulators, Performance Evaluation, Routing Protocols, Vehicular Networks