Simulators for VANET

Abstract

VANET system would behave under different conditions.It is known that networking and mobility component are required to form a VANET. Continuous increased of on-road vehicles has also increased the possibility of accidents, most of it caused by human errors. Hence, a solution has been proposed, which is to make vehicles more intelligent through research on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Researchers and developers have built VANET simulation software to allow the study and evaluation of various media access, routing, and emergency warning protocols. MATLAB and Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) are further used for VANET simulation respectively. At the same time, TraCI4Matlab, an Application Programming Interface (API) developed in MATLAB that allows communication between any applications written in MATLAB and SUMO simulator is also discussed. Absence of road traffic safety takes a toll of precious human lives and poses a dire threat to our environment as well. Moreover, we present results of our proposed algorithm secure key exchange in NS2 simulator.