Towards a Novel MATLAB Framework for VANETs Simulation

Abstract

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are getting significant research attention to achieve road safety and limit the increasing number of car accidents caused by high density of vehicles on roads. Besides, modern vehicles are equipped with sensors, cameras, and on-board units that capable of communication with other vehicles, VANETs make use of these capabilities leading to the evolve of new applications and services. Testing vehicular networks protocols and applications requires special attention, since field operational testing is very expensive and even not practical for large scale networks, the software simulation tools are considered to be the best choice to test vehicular ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we will shed light on the most recent advances in vehicular network simulation, we will compare between two modern frameworks that represents state of art VANET simulators, upon this comparison we will suggest a new VANETs simulator framework based on MATLAB & Simulink environment.