Cooperative and Opportunistic Channel Access for Vehicle to Roadside (V2R) Communications
Mobile Networks and Applications
On the feasibility of UMTS-based Traffic Information Systems
Ad Hoc Networks
Driver-centric VANET simulation
Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Communication technologies for vehicles
An adaptive approach for information dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Towards realistic mobility modeling for vehicular ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Simulation Symposium
Comparing apples and oranges?: trends in IVC simulations
Proceedings of the ninth ACM international workshop on Vehicular inter-networking, systems, and applications
Interactions of large scale EV mobility and virtual power plants
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
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Much progress can be observed in the domain of Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) research looking back at the last decade. It can be seen that studies of vehicular communication protocols in the context of VANETs are typically based on simulation models. This approach has two major prerequisites: First, detailed network simulation of all layers of communication protocols is necessary as provided by a wide variety of tools by the networking community. Secondly, realistic simulation of vehicles' mobility, i.e., an exact modeling of road traffic, is needed to estimate positions and movements of involved components. The contributions of this article are twofold: First, a survey of the evolution of mobility modeling in VANET simulations is provided, outlining the simulation strategies typically used. Secondly, this article investigates how recent advances in bidirectional coupling of road traffic microsimulation and network simulation lead to more realistic results at comparably low computational cost. In conclusion, this article advocates to employ such techniques that are openly available for further studies of new communication protocols and mechanisms in the domain of VANET research.