Ouafa Mahma and Ahmed Korichi, Kasdi Merbah University, Algeria

In the 2000s, ad hoc networks was developed and highly used in dynamic environment, particularly for inter- vehicular communication (VANETs : Vehicular Ad hoc Networks). Since that time, many researches and developments process was dedicated to VANET networks. This was motivated by the current vehicular industry trend that is leading to a new transport system generation based on the use of new communication technologies in order to provide many services to passengers, the fact that improves the driving and travel’s experience. These systems require traffic information sharing and dissemination the example as the case alert message emitting allowing the driver to minimize driving risks. Sharing such information between vehicles helps to anticipate potentially dangerous situations, as well as planning better routes during congestion situations. In this context, we are trying in this paper to model and simulate VANET Networks in order to analyze and evaluate security information dissemination approaches and mechanisms used in this type of networks in several exchanges conditions.This in order to identify their limitations and suggest a new improved approach. This study was conducted as part of our research project entitled “Simulation & VANETs”, where we justify and validate our approach using modeling and simulation techniques and tools used in this domain.

VANET, data dissemination, simulation, modeling, analysis and performance study.