A Comparision of Vanet Routing Protocols Performance for Emergency Situations

Natural phenomena that cause loss of life and property are called natural disasters. It is not possible to prevent natural disasters if measures are taken. Large-scale natural disasters cause major damage to the economy, energy, health, transport and communication. Transportation and telecommunications play a critical role in disaster response and management in order to minimize the loss of human life, economic costs and disruptions. After natural disasters, communication may be partially or completely destroyed. Over the years, special solutions have emerged to ensure the continuity of communication, such as Mobile connectivity (MANET), Inter-Vehicle Connectivity (VANET), and Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN). One of the solutions presented in this article is the VANET. In case of disasters, the routing protocols to be used between vehicles (AODV, DSDV, OLSR, DSR, ZRP) are compared and it is discussed which routing protocol can be used in different situations. In order to test the routing protocols in different scenarios, traffic was generated in the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) software and the generated traffic was tested in the Network Simulator 3 (NS3) software.