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Volume 5 Issue -04 April, 2016 Page No. 16079-16083

Comparative Study MANET and VANET

Piyush Chouhan, Girish Kaushal, Urmila Prajapati3
1,2

Shree Vaishnav Polytechnic, Indore, 3MIT, Ujjain

pchouhan06@yahoo.com 2kaushalgirish@gmail.com 3urmilaprajapati28@gmail.com

Abstract: MANET and VANET are the active research areas and lots of routing protocols have been proposed for use
in these areas.. In MANET, nodes are connected through wireless channels in a network and each node acts as a router
and as a host. One of the scenario of MANET is Vehicular ad-hoc networks. For communication in VANET, efficient
Routing Protocols are needed. Because of highly changing network topology and frequent disconnection it's strenuous
to design an efficient routing protocol for vehicles, there can be two types of VANET that are V2V(Vehicle to
Vehicle) and V2RSU(Vehicle to Road Side Unit). Because of daily happening of accidents VANET is one of the
affecting areas for the refinement of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) which can insure passengers and road
safety. The Intelligent Transport Systems gives information if there exists any emergency and tells about traffic
density. the traffic and traffic density. The existing routing protocols for VANET are not efficient enough to meet all
traffic scenarios. Worthy routing protocols are required to initiate communication between vehicles in future for
passengers and road safety. This paper shows literature survey related to Reactive and Proactive Routing Protocols of
MANET as AODV, DSDV, OLSR, and DSR. Analysis and characterization of these protocols is shown in the paper
which helps in further improvement of existing routing protocols.
Network Topology. In MANET, nodes do
Keywords: MANET, VANET, AODV, DSDV, DSR,
communication with each other in a rapidly changing
OLSR.
environment. Other challenges include Routing, Speed,
Quality of Service, lack of authorization facilities,
I.
INTRODUCTION
attacks related to trust vulnerability, Unicasting,
Multicasting, Frequency of updates or Network
One type of the wireless Networks is the Mobile adoverhead. The Advantage of MANET technology is
hoc Networks and another type of wireless Network is
that mobile instruments can be used at any point of
Vehicular Ad-hoc Network. In MANET, nodes
time.
communicate with each other without an existing
infrastructure. A mobile ad-hoc network is a set of
II.
USES OF MANET
wireless mobile nodes which forms temporary network
without any stable infrastructure. In MANET, each
Mobile ad-hoc networks have a wide application area
node works as a router and as host. These nodes are
because of its characteristics. Some of the application
peer to peer, self configuring and free to move in any
area of MANET is as followsdirection because of this links to other nodes changes
rapidly.
1. It is used in the operation of rescue and military
related operations.
In MANET, Network is self configuring and performs
2. MANET is useful in public transportation as
significant functioning for safeguarding & searching
Internet and intranet hot spots.
routes. In MANET, each node acts as a router and as a
3. Useful in meetings and seminars for distribution of
host and the nodes are free to move in any direction
informaation.
because of this the Network topology changes rapidly.
4. Used in localized shopping and sdvertising.
Maintaining routes in a rapidly changing network
topology is tough. The mobile ad-hoc Networks have
characteristics as 1. multi hop
2. dynamically changing environment
3. Bandwidth constrained links
Because of this characteristics we can not use the
protocols of wired networks for wireless networks.
One of the challenges in MANET is Dynamic

VANET is a subset of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. It is a

newly introduced technology. VANET enables
vehicles to communicate with each other and share
information in a wireless network if the vehicles are
within the range. VANET
has some different
characteristics than the MANET that makes it
unique.There can be two types of VANET-

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1. V2V - When there is no infrastructure needed, nodes
do vehicle to vehicle communication with each other.
2. V2RSU - When Road Side Units are used for
routing information exchange with the other vehicles.
An important issue in VANET is the high velocity at
which vehicles move that creates problems for
information exchange. Widely varying mobility
characteristics vehicular or mobile nodes are expected
to have remarkable impact on the performance of
routing protocols. Although researchers have
developed protocols for routing as Ad-hoc On Demand
Distance Vector, Destination Sequenced Distance
Vector, Optimized Link State Routing, and Dynamic
Source Routing. These protocols can not be directly
used in VANET. Because in VANET, high speed,
varied density nodes communicate with each other and
there exists rapid variation in link connectivity.
III.

USES OF VANET

Vehicular ad-hoc network is useful in safety issues of

vehicles and also useful for providing comfort level to
the passengers these areas include Comfort Applications: Examples of comfort
applications include Traffic Information System (TIS),
Weather information system and gas station. These
applications provide comfort level to the passengers
and also provide traffic efficiency.
Safety Applications: Examples of Safety Applications
include Emergency warning system, Co-operative
Message Transfer, Post Crash Notification,
Cooperative Collision Warning, Real-time traffic.
These safety applications shares emergency and safety
data between vehicles which insures the safety of
passengers. Convenience Applications: Examples of
convenience applications are Route Diversions,
Electronic Toll Collection, and Parking Availability
etc. Convenience applications provide convenience to
the public and passengers in various ways.
Some Factors that affect mobility in VANET. In
VANET the mobility patterns of nodes affects the
maintenance, route discovery, consistency. Here are
some factors that affect mobility in VANET1. Traffic control mechanisms: Traffic lights and stop
signs are the commonly used traffic control tools.
Reult of these tools are long queue of vehicles that
reduces the speed of the vehicles. Reduced mobility
means that there are more static nodes and the rate of
route change becomes slow in the network.
2. Interdependent vehicular motion: Movement of
surrounding vehicles affect the movement of any other
vehicle on the road. We can understand this with the
example that a vehicle tries to maintain least distance
with a vehicle before it. When a person driving vehicle
changes its lane or increases/decreases speed it

depends on the surrounding of the vehicle.

3. Average speed: Rate of change of network
topology is determined by how speedily a vehicle
changes its position. The average speed of vehicles is
also affected by the speed limit of the road.
Acceleration and deceleration of topology and vehicles,
broken and new routes also affect the speed of vehicles.
COMPARISON BETWEEN MANET AND VANET
Similarity between MANET and VANET is that in
both ad-hoc networks the nodes are self-organizing
and they manage the information by themselves
without a server.
Vehicular ad-hoc networks have few unique
characteristics and hence present as a class of Mobile
ad-hoc networks.
Rapidly Changing Dynamic Topology - In Vehicular
ad-hoc network, vehicles move at a high velocity, on
highways vehicles can move at the velocity of 60-70
mph i.e. 25m/sec. And it can vary for different
vehicles.
Frequent Network Disconnections - Rapidly
changing dynamic topology results in frequent network
disconnections because the link between two vehicles
can disconnect very fast. The problem becomes worst
if the node density varies because different density of
nodes is there on roads and highways. Therefore here
exists a need of robust routing protocol that can
recognize frequent disconnections and can provide an
alternate link quickly for communication without any
inturrpt.
Unlimited battery Power the nodes in VANET
should not suffer for power limitations as in sensor
networks. In another scenario of ad-hoc networks static
nodes have ample energy.
Quality of Services Any traditional MANET routing
protocols do not follow QoS routing strategy. There
are many researches done to integrate QoS routing
strategies in MANET routing protocols. For Urban
VANET (MURU) the Multi-hop Routing Protocols
[30], estimate standard factors of a route, basis of that
is position of vehicle, speed and trajectories. MURU
establishes new metric called Expected Disconnection
Degree (EDD) that is based on the factors mentioned
above. Therefore nodes in MURU need to know
position of them and should have external street map
with existence of systematic location facilities.
IV.

LITERATURE SURVEY

1. Comprehensive Study of Proactive and

Reactive Protocols in MANET We have
recognized many important segments of literature

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for routing protocols in MANET and VANET.
They did the comparison on three parameters
e2edelay, packet delivery ratio, throughput
betweeen protocols OLSR, AODV, DSDV and
TORA and showed that AODV and OLSR
performs better than DSDV and TORA. TORA
lacks in all three factors.
2. Performance Comparison of AODV, DSDV,
OLSR and DSR Routing Protocols in Mobile
Ad Hoc Networks The realistic differentiation of
routing protocols DSDV, AODV and DSR is
shown. AODV performs best with its ability to
maintain connection by exchanging information
periodically. Reference[4] did comparative study
on MANET routing protocols on parameters
throughput, packet delivery ratio, end to end delay
and normalized routing load. They did
comparative study for 50 and 100 nodes.
3. Step by Step Procedural Comparison of DSR,
AODV and DSDV Routing protocol, compared
3 popular routing protocols AODV, DSDV, DSR
and showed that AODV has a stable end to end
delay. DSDV has more packet delivery ratio than
the AODV and DSR protocols. DSR has highest
end to end delay and routing load. This reference
showed that AODV is efficient than DSR &
DSDV but in case of normalized routing load
DSDV is better.
4. Provided a simulation and analysis of routing
protocols of VANET for end to end delay in
vehicle to vehicle communication They took
urban scenario for V2V communication using
Bellman ford routing protocol and found that
Bellman ford routing protocol implemented using
QualNet performs better than AODV and DSR for
end to end delay for all sets of velocity. They
showed that Bellman ford suits more for DSRC
technology as compared to DSR and AODV
protocols.
Classification of Routing Protocols in MANET
Routing protocols in MANET can be broadly
partitioned into two categories that are Reactive &
Proactive protocols, where proactive protocols are
table driven and reactive protocols are on-demand.
a. Reactive Routing Protocols
In Reactive Protocols routes are discovered only when
the routes are needed.
a.1
Ad-hoc
On-demand
Distance
Vector
Routing(AODV)
It is an on-demand routing protocol i.e. it creates route
only when the route is demanded by the source nodes

[1,10]. AODV can use unicast and multicast routing as

needed by the network. AODV uses sequence numbers
to ensure that the current route is a fresh route. AODV
uses broadcast IP therefore routing provided by it, does
not contain loops.
Whenever we need to send packets from source to a
destination for which route is not discovered. It sends a
RREQ (route request packet) throughout the network.
A node that receives RREQ can reply back with RREP
(route reply) message, if it is the destination or it has a
route to destination with a sequence number
greater/equal to the RREQ. Route Error (RERR)
message is used whenever link break occurs. RERR is
sent to the source node to inform that the destination is
not reachable now. Issues in AODV are that- here for
connection setup and for initiation of communication
time required is more than the other approaches of
route establishment. It may lead to inconsistency in
route if intermediate nodes contain old entries. It may
lead to heavy control overhead if for a single RREP
packet there has manyroute reply packets.it consumes
extra bandwidth because of periodic beaconing.
a.2 Dynamic Source Routing (DSR)
DSR protocol uses source routing method. It is like the
AODV protocol as it forms route whenever demanded
by the source. DSR is different from AODV in a way
that In DSR each intermediate node that broadcasts a
RREQ packet adds its own address to a list attached in
the packet. Destination node generates RREP message
that includes list of addresses received in route request
and transmits it back by using same path to the source.
DSR protocol does two main mechanisms that areallowing the discovery of routes & maintenance of
source routes in the mobile ad-hoc network.
Route Discovery is used whenever source tries to send
data to a destination for which it does not know route.
Route Maintenance- using this mechanism source that
wants to send packets to destination can be detected.
While source is sending packets to destination, If
topology changes route maintenance is done. DSR
protocol can be used with ad hoc networks as it uses
source routing method, unidirectional links and
provides loosp free routes. Issues in DSR found as the route information within the header will lead to
byte overhead, if there exists too many nodes in the
network. Unnecessary flooding burden is there on the
network. DSR is not able to repair broken links in a
local manner.
b. Proactive Routing Protocols
In proactive routing protocols information about nodes
is stored in the form of tables. Whenever any change
occurs in the Network topology then the tables are

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updated accordingly.
Nodes swap topology
information so they have route information at any
point of time. No route discovery delay is associated
while finding new route. DSDV (Destination
Sequenced Distance Vector) and OLSR (Optimized
Link State Routing) protocols are proactive routing
protocols.
b.1 Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR)
It is a table driven proactive link state routing protocol.
It reduces flooding process and control message
overhead by marking subsets of neighbours as mutli
point relays (MRLs). OLSR uses two types of
messages- HELLO message and Topology Control
(TC) message. There are two lists which are
maintained by HELLO message. First list maintains
neighbours address to which link exists. Second list
maintains neighbours address from which control
traffic heard but bidirectional links are not confirmed.
In OLSR, each node maintains a routing table. This
routing table contains destination address, next node
address, number of nodes to destination. Main issue in
the OLSR protocol is related to the large message
overhead which is difficult to maintain.
b.2 Destination Sequenced Distance Vector
(DSDV)
DSDV is a table driven scheme for ad hoc mobile
Networks. DSDV protocol is based on Bellman Ford
Algorithm along with some improvements on it. In
DSDV, routing table maintains entry about number of
nodes to destination in the network and entry for every
mobile node. Sequence Numbers are used to
differentiate between stale routes & fresh routes. Use
of sequence numbers avoids formation of loops. In all
available routes, route with highest sequence number is
used. Whenever network is stable, incremental updates
are sent to avoid extra traffic.
If the Network is idle than also Routing updates are
exchanged, for this network uses battery and network
bandwidth. If any link failure occurs while route is
active, the node upstream propogates a RERR message
to the source node for informing about the link failure.
Issues in DSDV protocol includes heavy overhead
because there exists requirement of periodic update
messages. Another issue is related with the wastage of
bandwidth because of unnecessary routing information
even if no change in the network topology.
V. CONCLUSION
In this paper we surveyed about Reactive and
Proactive Routing protocols of MANET. We did the
comparative analysis between the mobile ad-hoc
network and the vehicular ad-hoc network. Our

literature survey focuses on protocols like AODV,

DSR, DSDV and OLSR. the Reactive protocols will be
the best if we want to use any existing protocol with
the same set of rules in both the VANET and MANET.
based on previous research work and study AODV
results better than any other reactive protocols for
both MANET and VANET.
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