Simulation of Car-to-Car Messaging: Analyzing the Impact on Road Traffic

Abstract

In this paper we present a special simulation environment, used to analyze the effects of a real-time vehicle-tovehicle warning-message distribution application on road traffic. For the realization of this environment, a coupling concept for coupling a traffic and a network simulator has been developed and implemented. Besides the simulation environment and its realization we'll present simulation results.

Enabling efficient and accurate large-scale simulations of VANETs for vehicular traffic management

“…e.g., [4]) or to couple and synchronize two simulators of the respective area (cf. e.g., [5], [6]). The majority of the works following the latter approach used the network simulator NS-2 and interlinked it with diverse traffic simulators (e.g., CARISMA, VISSIM).…”

Intelligent Highway Infrastructure for Planned Evacuations

“…As is customary in the VANET literature [4,9,15], we assume that cars are fitted with a tamper-resistant black box which is the locus of vehicle-based communications. In NOTICE, the box receives sensory data from vehicle subassemblies as well as queries from the belts.…”

TraNS

“…Similar efforts to ours have been undertaken by other researchers, highlighting the importance of new simulation tools for VANETs. Notably, the last three years have witnessed a major proliferation of tools that attempt to integrate traffic and networks simulators [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. Both [10] and [18] use real maps to create random waypoint mobility traces; [11] uses microscopic traffic models on artificial Voronoi graphs; [12] uses the traffic simulator SUMO to generate mobility traces for ns2; [16] is a modular integrated traffic and network simulator from scratch, but it lacks validated communication modules; [17] uses a microscopic traffic simulator on the real maps of one city (Zürich).…”

“…There exist exceptions, e.g. [13,14], which achieve real-time interaction between a traffic and a network simulator: VISSIM or CARISMA and ns2 respectively. Unfortunately, VISSIM and CARISMA are commercial products, and thus the tools described in [13,14] are not publicly available.…”

“…[13,14], which achieve real-time interaction between a traffic and a network simulator: VISSIM or CARISMA and ns2 respectively. Unfortunately, VISSIM and CARISMA are commercial products, and thus the tools described in [13,14] are not publicly available. Moreover, highly integrated simulators, such as NCTUns [15] can help in evaluating VANETs, as they allow run-time control of vehicle movements through an intelligent driving behavior module.…”