Minimizing Control Overhead of Routing Protocols in Wireless Multihop Networks: Simulation Evaluation

In recently developed unmaned vehicles technologies, a lot of interest from the research community is focused on the decision making of autopilot agents, which are programmed to safely drive or pilot an unmaned vehicle through road traffic or aerial traffic. A lot of work has to be done in connecting those agent-driven vehicles, in order to create possibilities for new applications, business models and communication paradigms. A lot of research has been done on the communication channel (i.e. mm wave, tdma techniques). However, vehicle communication applications and infrastructure require more attention and development. In this paper we investigate the performance of AODV routing protocol, and simulate different scenarios of environmental settings, vehicle movements, AODV operation and so on. We then discuss the findings based on the simulation results.