There has been a great deal of research into the considerable challenge of managing of traffic at road junctions; its application to vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) has proved to be of great interest in the developed world. Dynamic topology is one of the vital challenges facing VANET; as a result, routing of packets to their destination successfully and efficiently is a non-simplistic undertaking. This paper presents a MDORA, an efficient and uncomplicated algorithm enabling intelligent wireless vehicular communications. MDORA is a robust routing algorithm that facilitates reliable routing through communication between vehicles. As a position-based routing technique, the MDORA algorithm, vehicles' precise locations are used to establish the optimal route by which the vehicles may reach their desired destinations. By determining the route containing the maximum distance with the minimum number of hops, MDORA minimizes the control overhead. The final aspect of the paper is to compare gains of MDORA with those of existing protocols such as AODV, GPSR-L and HLAR in terms of throughput, packet delivery ratio and average delay. From the analysis, it will be evident that the performance of MDORA is far better than the other protocols.
