An Optimized and Efficient Routing Protocol Application for IoV

Table 2

Key parameters for simulation.

Parameters	Description
Transmission range	It defines the vehicle’s range in which it would be able to communicate with other vehicles in the network. Varying the transmission range may impact the overall performance of the network.
Rate of transfer	It specifies how much data can be transferred in the given time.
Packet received	This parameter describes the number of successful packets received by the destination. It greatly impacts the performance of any network.
Packet size	Packet size may vary from network to network, but we will have a fixed size of packets that can be routed in the network.
Pause time	It is the controlling parameter specifying how much time a sink node will stay in a specified grid.
Simulation time	The total time taken for one whole simulation is considered in this parameter.
Received rate	This parameter tells us the amount of data received in bytes/kilobytes.
Packet loss	The number of packets that were not received by the destination due to communication error is calculated under the packet loss parameter.
No. of sinks	Sinks are the nodes that help us to gather and preprocess the data collected from the surroundings via sensor node. The number of deployed sink nodes for the desired scenario is specified under this parameter.
Grid size	The overall size of the grid in which the experimentation is done.
Node speed	This is the movement speed of the node.
Node direction	This is the direction of the vehicle on the road on which it is moving, it may include intersections and left, right, or straight lane.
Basic safety messages (BSM)	These messages do not help in routing, but rather they provide other useful information, yet they consume bandwidth of the network.