TRUE: A Correlation Analysis Approach for Conducting Optimal Routing Metrics in VANETs

In vehicular networks, especially in urban scenarios, road topology-based routing shows great advantages in dealing with the problems of broken links and long delays originating from sparse connections and signal attenuation. However, how road status affect data transmission performance on various routing metrics is still an intricate and vague problem. Concerned with this problem, we propose a correlation analysis approach between road network features and routing metrics (TRUE) to assist in the construction of optimal routing metrics in road-based hierarchical inter-vehicle routing. Simulation results show that TRUE has a strong ability to optimize intermediate road selection.