Wu, JingWang, Yuhao2016-10-272016-10-272011-07Wireless Engineering and Technology, 2011, 2, 125-129http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/wet.2011.23018http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1086Modeling complicated vehicular traffic behavior and analyzing effects on the communication performance of routing protocols taken by environmental factors have been a challenging task for the past several years. In this paper, we study the performance of multi-path routing protocol. Then, we investigate both multi-path and single-path routing protocol and analyze characteristics such as network connectivity, vehicle-node density etc. To better understand this phenomenon, we use mobility model with different parameters and evaluate the performance of routing protocols (Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector and Ad-hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector routing protocols) through NS2 platform. The simulation results show the significance of multi-path on the throughput, loss and average delay of VANETs. The results of this paper may be used to study designing route protocols and applications of VANET.enVehicular Ad Hoc Networks(VANETs)Multi-PathAODVAOMDVBook