2017

Journal

An International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications

Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is a sub-family of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). The principal goal of VANET is to provide communications between nearby nodes or between nodes and fixed infrastructure. Despite that VANET is considered as a subclass of MANET, it has for particularity the high mobility of vehicles producing the frequent changes of network topology that involve changing of road and varying node density of vehicles existing in this road. That‘s why, the most proposed clustering algorithms for MANET are unsuitable for VANET. Various searches have been recently published deal with clustering for VANETs, but most of them are focused on minimizing network overhead value, number of created clusters and had not considered the vehicles interests which defined as any related data used to differentiate vehicle from another. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering algorithm based on agent technology to improve routing in VANET.

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