Performance Analysis of Radio Propagation Models in VANET Application

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is developed for the communication between vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicleto-roadside in purpose for safety, navigation and other roadside services. The radio propagation model (RPM) was used in VANET for the implementation of VANET in order to estimate the path loss in multiple operating environments such as modern road infrastructure. This research is concerned with the study about the performance of different RPM on VANET between Free Space propagation, Two Ray Ground propagation and Nakagami propagation. The purpose of this research work is to observe the packet loss, throughput and average end-to-end delay between vehicles by implementing different type of RPMs, which then has been compared to determine which RPM has a better performance. To obtain the performance analysis of RPM in VANET, several software such as Java OpenStreetMap (JOSM), Simulator of Urban Mobility (SUMO), Mobility Model Generator for VANET (MOVE) and Network Simulator Version 2 (NS2) has been used with Linux Ubuntu version 20.04 as the operating system. The data were collected at Jalan Besar Selayang Baru, 68100 Batu Caves, Selangor. With the target location of 2 km x 2 km size, detail analyzation of data from all three different propagation models were performed. Hence, the best performance of RPM in VANET has been identified.

A Performance Analysis of VANETs Propagation Models and Routing Protocols

“…Many studies in the past have focused on routing protocol performance analysis in Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) [6], as well as in Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANET) [7]. Authors in [8] have compared various routing protocols and radio propagation models with real-time data sets. A comparative review of routing protocols implemented for the VANETs scenario is presented in [9] along with challenges and open issues for research directions.…”

“…Angeles et al [17] compared AODV, DSR, DYMO, and OLSR under various propagation models taking a realistic scenario of Brazil and evaluating different metrics by OMNeT++ simulator. Similarly, Shuhaimi et al [8] implements various propagation models on AODV and computed parameters, including packet loss, throughput, and delay for performance analysis, taking the scenario of Selangor and compared using NS-2 simulator.…”