A Gist of VANET Routing Protocols

After advent of the Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), giving rise to communication between independent nodes dynamically changing their positions, a new subfield, Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) was introduced enabling communication between dynamically independent vehicles. VANETs have now become one of the most actively researched field because of its applications such as real time data transfer dynamically, road safety, automated traffic information, etc. This paper presents some routing protocols available for VANETs and introduces decentralized routing protocol for VANETs.