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Performance Analysis of Optimized VANET Protocols in Real World Tests

Networking and Internet Architecture 2025-02-04 v1

Abstract

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide the communications required to deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In the current state of the art in this field there is a lack of studies on real outdoor experiments to validate thenew VANETs protocols and applications proposed by designers. In this work we have addressed the definition of a testbed in order to study the performance of the Vehicular Data Transfer Protocol (VDTP) in a real urban VANET. The VDTP protocol has been tested by employing six different parameter settings: one defined by human experts and five automatically optimized by means of metaheuristic algorithms (PSO, DE, GA, ES, and SA). As a result, we have been able to confirm the performance improvements when optimized VDTP configurations are used, validating the results previously obtained through simulation.

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@article{arxiv.2502.01537,
  title  = {Performance Analysis of Optimized VANET Protocols in Real World Tests},
  author = {Jamal Toutouh and Enrique Alba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.01537},
  year   = {2025}
}

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2011 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

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