A Bipolar Traffic Density Awareness Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Table 1

Simulation environments.

Simulation parameter	Value
Vehicle density	2 vehicles/km–20 vehicles/km
Vehicle velocity	3 m/s–30 m/s
Number of lanes	3 lanes
MAC protocol	IEEE802.11p
Wireless communication range	250 meters
Beacon interval	1.0 second
Data traffic	Constant bit rate (CBR)
Data packet size	512 bytes
Maximum comfortable acceleration	2 m/s^2
Maximum comfortable deceleration	2 m/s^2
Mobility model	IDM-LC
Simulation time	2000 seconds