Platform for Energy Efficiency Monitoring Electrical Vehicle in Real World Traffic Simulation

Abstract

The increasing popularity and attention in VANETs has prompted researchers to develop accurate and realistic simulation tools. The realistic simulation for VANETs is a challenging task as road networks have high mobility of vehicles. Many efforts have been made in the VANET simulation area to meet the need for coupling network and road traffic simulation. However, none of them permits simulation based on IoT infrastructure. In this work, we are bridging the IoT simulation with the traffic simulation by proposing a novel simulator, Simulator-Bridger. To achieve this, our proposed simulator bridges IoTSim-OsmosisRES with Sumo, a traffic simulator, where the former had to be extended to support mobility vehicles. We substantiate the suitability of our proposed approach by showing how state-of-the-art IoT simulators can manage communication-network traffic information as generated by a real-life urban mobility scenario through VANET simulators.