In recent years, Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) innovation has been regarded as a significant research area. This is owing to the increasing popularity of vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communications in the area of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) to improve traffic management, safety, CO2 emission mitigation, and other applications. A variety of routing protocols for VANETs are being recently developed. More specifically, geographic-based routing algorithms such as Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (GPSR) have provoked the most interest in VANETs due to their compatibility with a regularly changing network structure and the highly unsteady nature of automobile nodes. This paper proposes an efficient weight based mobility method in VANET to improve the mechanism of the GPSR protocol through optimizing the greedy forwarding strategy; which is so called O-Greedy Mode. Therefore, the key goal is to achieve the optimal data forwarding paths. The next hop is determined by estimating the neighbors’ mobility based on each neighbor’s Greedy Link Weight Factor (GLWF). The Weighted GPSR (W-GPSR) based on Mobility Prediction is then evaluated using OMNeT++ simulator with Inet, Veins and SUMO traffic simulator. The results demonstrate the efficiency of W-GPSR in contrast with the traditional existing protocols for essential metrics of Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), throughput, End-to-End Delay (E2ED), Normalized Routing Load (NRL) and Packet Loss Ratio (PLR).
Vehicular network security had spanned and covered a wide range of security related issues. However solar energy harvesting Road Side Unit (RSU) security was not defined clearly, it is this aspect that is considered in this paper. In this work, we will suggest an RSU security model to protect it against different internal and external threats. The main goal is to protect RSU specific data (needed for its operation) as well as its functionality and accessibility. The suggested RSU security model must responds to many objectives, it should ensure that the administrative information exchanged is correct and undiscoverable (information authenticity and privacy), the source (e.g., VANET server) is who he claims to be (message integrity and source authentication) and the system is robust and available (using Intrusion Detection System (IDS)). In this paper, we suggest many techniques to strength RSU security and they were prototyped using an experimental model based on Ubicom IP2022 network processor development kit .