Smooth is better than sharp: a random mobility model for simulation of wireless networks
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Graph-Based Mobility Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Simulation
SS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Simulation Symposium
Towards realistic mobility models for mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Performance evaluation of safety applications over DSRC vehicular ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
MDDV: a mobility-centric data dissemination algorithm for vehicular networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Modeling mobility for vehicular ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
GrooveSim: a topography-accurate simulator for geographic routing in vehicular networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
An integrated mobility and traffic model for vehicular wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Multiple simulator interlinking environment for IVC
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless vehicular ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Vehicular Mobility Simulation for VANETs
ANSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Simulation Symposium
Mobility models for vehicular ad hoc networks: a survey and taxonomy
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
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During the last few years, continuous progresses in wireless communications have opened new research fields in computer networking, aimed at extending data networks connectivity to environments where wired solutions are impracticable. Among these, vehicular communication is attracting growing attention from both academia and industry, owing to the amount and importance of the related applications, ranging from road safety to traffic control and up to mobile entertainment. Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are self-organized networks built up from moving vehicles, and are part of the broader class of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs). Owing to their peculiar characteristics, VANETs require the definition of specific networking techniques, whose feasibility and performance are usually tested by means of simulation. One of the main challenges posed by VANETs simulations is the faithful characterization of vehicular mobility at both the macroscopic and microscopic levels, leading to realistic non-uniform distributions of cars and velocity, and unique connectivity dynamics. However, freely distributed tools which are commonly used for academic studies only consider limited vehicular mobility issues, while they pay little or no attention to vehicular traffic generation and its interaction with its motion constraints counterpart. Such a simplistic approach can easily raise doubts on the confidence of derived VANETs simulation results. In this paper we present VanetMobiSim, a freely available generator of realistic vehicular movement traces for networks simulators. The traces generated by VanetMobiSim are validated first by illustrating how the interaction between featured motion constraints and traffic generator models is able to reproduce typical phenomena of vehicular traffic. Then, the traces are formally validated against those obtained by TSIS-CORSIM, a benchmark traffic simulator in transportation research. This makes VanetMobiSim one of the few vehicular mobility simulator fully validated and freely available to the vehicular networks research community.