Efficient Maintenance of AODV Routes in the Vehicular Communication Environment with Sparsely Placed Road Side Units

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameter	Value
Network size	100 × 2500 m
Simulation time	100 sec
Number of vehicles	11
Intervehicular distance	100 m
Vehicle transmission range	130 m
Vehicle velocity	60 km/h, 80 km/h, 100 km/h
Number of RSUs	2
Inter-RSU distance	1300 m
RSU transmission range	250 m
Traffic model	CBR (150 packets/sec)
Packet size	1024 bytes
MAC protocol	IEEE 802.11p