Successful Delivery Using Stable Multi-Hop Clustering Protocol for Energy Efficient Highway VANETs

Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a highly developing technology hence it is created using the moving vehicles it occupies maximum of the attention of the research scholars and the industrial people and as well it occupies most of the applications of Intelligent Transmission System (ITS). Vehicles in the VANET networks provide communication through two modes transmission, they are; inter vehicular and infrastructure based communication. Due the core functionalities of VANETs like high speed, random mobility and unpredictable vehicles movements certain drawbacks are occurred in the vehicular network which leads to increase of power utility, delay and overhead. In recent times cluster based models becomes more popular and as well it needs improvement to handle to high speed vehicles. For that purpose in this article, Successful Delivery using Stable Multi-Hop Clustering Protocol (SSMC) for VANETs are developed which includes effective clustering formation and cluster head (CH) selection process, cluster architecture and multi-hop communication among the vehicles. With the presence of these processes the communication quality of the vehicles can get increased. The implementation of this single-hop and multi-hop communication in VANETs are carried out in NS2 were its vehicle mobility is generated using the SUMO software. By calculating certain parameters like energy efficiency, packet delivery ratio, end to end delay and routing overhead the performance of the proposed SSMC-VANETs are evaluated and it gets compared with the earlier methods like MDEC-VANETs and COIM-VANETs. From the results evaluation is it observed that the proposed SSMC-VANETs attain maximum efficiency and delivery ratio when compared with the other baseline methods.