A Survey on Prediction based Routing for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Vehicular Ad-hoc network (VANET) is a type of Mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET), where vehicle mobility is high and topology changes are frequent. VANETs have many applications in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) e.g. traffic safety, vigilance control, active prediction and infotainment applications. Routing in VANETs has emerged as an interesting topic due to popularity of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication. Due to frequent topology changes in VANETs, a topology independent protocol is desired to predict collisions and route failures. In this paper, we provide recent research progress from 2015-2020 in prediction-based routing for VANETs. For this purpose, we have followed Kitchenham guidelines to survey research articles, performed classification based on their evaluation parameters and explored their applications. The research challenges have been identified for prediction-based routing. This paper provides a quick review of recent predictive protocols designed for VANETs.