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Routing is continuous challenging issue in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) given the intrinsic characteristics of these networks, especially limited resources and high mobility. Indeed, for any routing protocol to achieve acceptable network throughput performance it should adapt its operation to VANET high frequency topology change dynamics. In this paper an enhancement of such routing protocols is proposed using the Route Life Time (RLT) policy which purpose is to maintain the established route as long as possible in VANET likely dynamic environments. Indeed, the well-known VANET routing protocols AODV and DSR are enhanced to their respective versions baptized AODV-RLT and DSR-RLT. A realistic VANET model is defined for the purpose of simulation experiments and both single and a comparative evaluation of the proposals is performed. These experiments show that both of the AODV-RLT and DSR-RLT exhibit good performance as far as the network throughput was considered. The comparative study lightens that the DSR-RLT protocol overcomes the AODV-RLT to achieve a higher network throughput.

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Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are based on network technology where cars act as mobile nodes to form a communication network. In VANETs, routing protocols have a significance regarding the overall network performance since they determine the way of sending and receiving packets between mobile nodes. Most of the protocols proposed for VANETs are adapted from Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) routing protocols. However, due to the specific characteristics of VANETs, especially high mobility, and dynamic topology, the routing protocols in ad hoc networks do not adapt immediately to VANETs. Therefore, secure routing of Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) against attacks, which are of various types, is still a challenging issue. This paper is going to present a synthesis of the most relevant protocols that have addressed the secure routing issue in VANETs. It also establishes a comparison regarding the offered features and the studied performance aspects through which it is notified that a security mechanism depends not only on the level of efficiency but also on the network constraints.