ABSTRACT
A Vehicular Ad hoc Network is a characteristic of mobile ad hoc networks where mobile nodes are depicted as vehicles (smart) equipped with network cards, computers, and sensors. In ad hoc network, to exchange traffic information the communication takes place between the vehicles with each other and if there is a need to access internet or request some information then communication takes place between vehicles and base stations placed along the roads. In this kind of networks, the routing is the tedious task to perform. A large number of routing protocols are available. In this study, a novel weight-based approach for data transmission is developed. The fuzzy inference system is applied for evaluating the weight value. Various parameters such as node density, mobility, node status, link lifetime, and PDR are used for evaluating the weight function. The results are analyzed by using the MATLAB simulation platform.
