Secured Multi-Hop Clustering Protocol for Location-based Routing in VANETs

In today’s world, with the rise in the count of vehicles and lack of proper navigation, the congestion has become a major problem. In this scenario, VANETs play a very important part in improving the traffic condition and also in providing proper navigation. Improved navigation system reduces congestion thereby reducing the possibility of occurrence of accidents. In this research work, we have used a position-based routing protocol i.e., GPSR (Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing Protocol) to effectively analyze the geographical position of the vehicles in the network and to provide updated navigation information. In this system, we have used a security mechanism to identify valid and invalid messages for secure V2V and V2I communications. This mechanism drops all the invalid messages thereby keeping the VANET secure. It also reduces the possibility of attacks on wireless communications in the VANET. This system has better safety features and network performance compared to other hybrid schemes via NS2 simulation.