GloMoSim: a library for parallel simulation of large-scale wireless networks
PADS '98 Proceedings of the twelfth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Network simulations with OPNET
Proceedings of the 31st conference on Winter simulation: Simulation---a bridge to the future - Volume 1
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Real-Time Network Emulation with ns-2
DS-RT '04 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
The security of vehicular ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Security of ad hoc and sensor networks
An evaluation of inter-vehicle ad hoc networks based on realistic vehicular traces
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
The design and implementation of WiMAX module for ns-2 simulator
WNS2 '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator
WNS2 '06 Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator
Overhaul of ieee 802.11 modeling and simulation in ns-2
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
TraNS: realistic joint traffic and network simulator for VANETs
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Simulating wireless and mobile networks in OMNeT++ the MiXiM vision
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
A reputation system for traffic safety event on vehicular ad hoc networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing
Mobility models for vehicular ad hoc networks: a survey and taxonomy
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
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Over the last few years Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have become a major research topic. Security mechanisms such as Public Key Infrastructure have been customized to provide privacy, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation to vehicle communications. Once the security foundations were established, different applications were built on top: intelligent driving systems, parking spot finders, peer-to-peer content, advertisements distribution, etc. In order to verify the feasibility of those applications in the VANET environment, simulation tools such as ns-2 or Glomosim are used, basing their mobility model on non-uniform distributions. The major difficulty for those simulations resides in the complexity of correctly characterizing vehicular mobility at both macroscopic and microscopic levels. This article leaves the generation of mobility traces to simulators such as Multi-Agent Traffic Simulator or VanetMobiSim and focuses on the implementation of the network application simulator poiSim. poiSim simulates Chains of Trust, a secure points of interest distribution protocol for vehicular networks. This article discusses how, by using customized application simulators, we can obtain more realistic results than by using general network simulators such as ns-2. poiSim processes a 24-hour mobility trace produced by a Multi-Agent Traffic Simulator with over 260,000 nodes, which realistically simulates public and private traffic over regional maps of Switzerland. The result is a Chains of Trust simulation, which accurately portrays reality and can be executed in a personal computer. Finally, it should be noted that poiSim could easily be modified to simulate other protocols in vehicular networks.