# Improved Road Segment-Based Geographical Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
## 3 Improved Road Segment-Based Geographical Routing Protocol
### Routing Process, Flowchart and Algorithms
; resources, F.U.I; supervision, K.N.Q., O.K. ; validation, A.K., J.L. ; writing, K.N.Q. ; review and editing, O.K., J.L. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This research was funded by Bahria University, Islamabad Campus. The research work is also supported by and Nottingham Trent University, UK. The authors declare no conflict of interest. ## References

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