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MOVE: A Practical Simulator for Mobility Model in VANET

MOVE: A Practical Simulator for Mobility Model in VANET
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Author(s): Kun-Chan Lan (National Cheng Kung University, R.O.C.)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 14
Source title: Telematics Communication Technologies and Vehicular Networks: Wireless Architectures and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Chung-Ming Huang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)and Yuh-Shyan Chen (National Taipei University, Taiwan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-840-6.ch021

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Abstract

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) is surging in popularity, in which vehicles constitute the mobile nodes in the network. Due to the prohibitive cost of deploying and implementing such a system in real world, most research in VANET relies on simulations for evaluation. A key component for VANET simulations is a realistic vehicular mobility model that ensures conclusions drawn from simulation experiments will carry through to real deployments. However, VANET simulations raise many new questions about suitable levels of details in simulation models for nodes mobility. In VANET simulations, the mobility models used affect strongly the simulation output. The researchers need to decide what level of details are required for their simulations. In this chapter, the authors introduce a tool MOVE that allows users to rapidly generate realistic mobility models for VANET simulations. MOVE is built on top of an open source micro-traffic simulator SUMO. The output of MOVE is a realistic mobility model and can be immediately used by popular network simulators such as ns-2 and Qualnet. The authors show that the simulation results obtained when using a realistic mobility model such as MOVE are significantly different from results based on the commonly used random waypoint model. In addition, the authors evaluate the effects of details of mobility models in three case studies of VANET simulations (specifically, the existence of traffic lights, driver route choice and car overtaking behavior) and show that selecting sufficient level of details in the simulation is critical for VANET protocol design.

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