Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Nowadays, the use of wireless technology has invaded the market of telecommunications networks. There are two main families of wireless networks: networks with infrastructure and networks without infrastructure or AdHoc. In the networks with infrastructure, communications are made via a fixed base station; however, communications in an AdHoc network occur in the absence of any fixed communication infrastructure. There are three types of AdHoc networks: mobile AdHoc networks, mesh networks, and sensor networks. This research applied the mobile AdHoc network to the intelligent transportation systems that improve the traditional transport system with reducing the risk of human errors and with the effective management of traffic congestion. The authors focus in the work especially on the routing protocols inside the MANETs to come out with four routing protocols (AODV, OLSR, DSR, and TORA), and this paper compared their performances in case of using HTTP application, FTP application, email application, voice application, and the rate of the routing control traffic.