loop - A Trace-based Emulator for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Pedro Cirne, André Zúquete, Susana Sargento

2018

Abstract

In this paper we present loop (loop over orderly phases), a trace-based emulator for Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). This is an alternative and novel method to evaluate improvements on VANET protocols, which relies and takes advantage of real data samples collected from an existing network. Those samples are vehicles’ geographical locations and radio reception events, which represent mobility and communication patterns of the VANET. From those samples, loop creates a synthetic environment to simulate and evaluate communication protocols on the target VANET. loop also includes an interactive mode to manage the emulation process and a visualization mode that shows different time and geographical-dependent aspects. The development of loop was motivated by the need of an non-intrusive methodology to intensively analyse and deterministically compare the impact of several strategies for communication protocols and all their possible variations in a realistic scenario, both in terms of mobility and radio communication opportunities. Namely, we created loop to evaluate the impact of adding security features to the routing control plane of an VANET. Since the VANET includes hundreds of vehicles, the computational performance is critical to speed-up evaluations. With loop we were able to perform complex, multi-variable performance evaluations of 24 hour periods in durations ranging from 6 up to 30 minutes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cirne P., Zúquete A. and Sargento S. (2018). loop - A Trace-based Emulator for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-323-0, pages 391-402. DOI: 10.5220/0006854503910402

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech18,
author={Pedro Cirne and André Zúquete and Susana Sargento},
title={loop - A Trace-based Emulator for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2018},
pages={391-402},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006854503910402},
isbn={978-989-758-323-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - loop - A Trace-based Emulator for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
SN - 978-989-758-323-0
AU - Cirne P.
AU - Zúquete A.
AU - Sargento S.
PY - 2018
SP - 391
EP - 402
DO - 10.5220/0006854503910402