A vehicular mobility model based on real traffic counting data
Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Communication technologies for vehicles
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Comparing apples and oranges?: trends in IVC simulations
Proceedings of the ninth ACM international workshop on Vehicular inter-networking, systems, and applications
A simulation tool for automated platooning in mixed highway scenarios
Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Generation of realistic traces for vehicular mobility simulations
Proceedings of the second ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications
Modeling video streaming over VANETs
Proceedings of the 7th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
A simulation tool for automated platooning in mixed highway scenarios
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Parallel microscopic simulation of metropolitan-scale traffic
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Simulation Symposium
Traffic aware video dissemination over vehicular ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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Recently, many efforts have been made to develop more efficient Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) protocols for on-demand route planning according to observed traffic congestion or incidents, as well as for safety applications. Because practical experiments are often not feasible, simulation of network protocol behavior in Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) scenarios is strongly demanded for evaluating the applicability of developed network protocols. In this work, we discuss the need for bidirectional coupling of network simulation and road traffic microsimulation for evaluating IVC protocols. As the selection of a mobility model influences the outcome of simulations to a great extent, the use of a representative model is necessary for producing meaningful evaluation results. Based on these observations, we developed the hybrid simulation framework Veins (Vehicles in Network Simulation), composed of the network simulator OMNeT++ and the road traffic simulator SUMO. In a proof-of-concept study, we demonstrate its advantages and the need for bidirectionally coupled simulation based on the evaluation of two protocols for incident warning over VANETs. With our developed methodology, we can advance the state-of-the-art in performance evaluation of IVC and provide means to evaluate developed protocols more accurately.