An intelligent movement-based routing for VANETs

Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) are a specic case of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs), with high nodes mobility specication, and a large energy resource which could extend coverage and system lifetime. Frequent topology changes let VANETs have special research interests, like medium access control and routing optimization. In a previous work, we proposed a MOvement Prediction-based Routing (MOPR) for VANETs that improves the routing process by selecting the most stable route with respect to the movement of the vehicles. In this paper, we present further MOPR optimizations concerning the reduction of its overhead (bandwidth optimization) and its implementation and performance evaluation over AODV using the NS2 AODV-UU implementation.