====== MoVES: A framework for parallel and distributed simulation of wireless vehicular ad hoc networks ======

====== Authors ======

  * Luciano Bononi
  * Marco Di Felice
  * [[http://www.cs.unibo.it/gdangelo|Gabriele D'Angelo]]
  * Michele Bracuto
  * Lorenzo Donatiello

====== Journal ======

Elsevier's Computer Networks (ComNet) Journal, Special issue on "Emerging Wireless Networks: Performance Modeling and Analysis". Volume 52, Issue 1, 18 January 2008, Pages 155-179. ISSN: 1389-1286

====== Abstract ======

//In this paper, we illustrate a Mobile Wireless Vehicular Environment Simulation (MoVES) framework for the parallel and distributed simulation of vehicular wireless ad hoc networks (VANETs). The proposed framework supports extensible, module-based and layered modeling, and scalable, accurate and efficient simulation of vehicular scenarios integrated with wireless communication and mobile services/applications. The vehicular layer includes models for vehicles, synthetic and trace-driven mobility, driver behavior, GPS-based street maps, intersection policies and traffic lights. The wireless communication layer currently includes models for physical propagation, and a network protocol stack including IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control, up to the Application layer. MoVES provides a platform for microscopic modeling and simulation-based analysis of wireless vehicular scenarios and communication-based services and applications, like Intelligent Transportation Systems, communication-based monitoring/control and info-mobility services. The framework includes design solutions for scalable, accurate and efficient parallel and distributed simulation of complex, vehicular communication scenarios executed over cost-effective, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation architectures. Dynamic model partition and adaptation-based load balancing solutions have been designed by exploiting common assumptions and model characteristics, in a user-transparent way. Test-bed performance evaluation for realistic scenarios has shown the effectiveness of MoVES in terms of simulation efficiency, scalability, adaptation and simulation accuracy.//

====== Keywords ======

   * wireless vehicular ad hoc networks; parallel and distributed simulation; intelligent transportation systems; mobile services; mobile communication.

====== Resources ======

===== Final Version =====

   * [[http://gdangelo.web.cs.unibo.it/pool/papers/gdangelo-COMNET-2008.pdf|PDF published version]]