A New Approach for Evaluating the Performance of AODV Routing Protocol in VANETs Using the Plackett-Burman Method

In order to evaluate the performance of routing protocols in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), the common method is to simulate different scenarios by varying one factor at a time. Hence, the number of simulations increases as the number of factors rises. This method attains useful results, but it is demanding and time consuming. In this paper, we present a new approach to address performance analysis tasks in VANET routing protocols, by applying the experimental plan methodology particularly the Plackett-Burman Method (PBM). The main objective of our work is to build mathematical models that allow studying the effect of multiple factors simultaneously with a minimum number of experiments. To implement our work, we select NS-3 for the Network simulation and SUMO for generating the mobility model. Additionally, we opt for AODV as a VANET routing protocol. We involve four factors, which are the Black Hole Attack, the Worm Hole Attack, the Node Density and the Number of Connections. The outcomes of our study show the relevancy of our method in the performance analysis of VANET routing protocols.