NCTUns 6.0: A Simulator for Advanced Wireless Vehicular Network Research

Abstract

NCTUns is a novel network simulator/emulator that has many unique features over traditional network simulators/emulators. It runs on Linux and many papers/projects have used it for wireless vehicular network research. According to the NCTUns website (http://NSL.csie.nctu.edu.tw/nctuns.html), as of December 24, 2009, more than 16,164 people from 137 countries in the world have registered and downloaded this software since its first public release on November 1, 2002. In its 6.0 release, NCTUns adds new supports for large-scale microscopic wireless vehicular network (WVN) simulation. In this paper, we introduce the important capabilities of NCTUns 6.0 for wireless vehicular network research.