Enhancement To The Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol For Vehicular Communications In A Smart City

Smart Cities identify and employ VANET Networks as a future network capable of reducing the overhead on the networks with installed infrastructures, multiple researches have illustrated the importance of the opportunistic network connectivity it offers within the city, where some researches still focus on the improvement they may offer to control the traffic and improve the road safety, other researches define how the integration of the VANET Networks within the Smart Cities offer a huge benefit to the connectivity within the city. In this paper, we focus on the data packets transmitted between source and destination nodes that require an Acknowledgement, the data exchange is carried out using the VANET Networks, where we use the AODV routing protocol as the standard protocol, we also propose in this paper an enhancement to the AODV routing protocol for VANET Networks in the context of Smart Cities that benefit both the Packet Delivery Ratio and the Quality of Service of the current network.