Services and simulation frameworks for vehicular cloud computing: a contemporary survey

Ahmed, Bilal; Malik, Asad Waqar; Hafeez, Taimur; Ahmed, Nadeem

doi:10.1186/s13638-018-1315-y

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 1 Mobility generators

From: Services and simulation frameworks for vehicular cloud computing: a contemporary survey

	Active	Map	Traffic	Network simulator	Major characteristics
	development	support	model	compatibility
SUMO [50]	✓	Both real and	Microscopic	NS-2, NS-3,	Lane change, collision avoidance,
		user defined		OMNeT++	multiple vehicles types, traffic intersections, speed control
MOVE [51]	×	Both real and	Microscopic	NS-2, QualNet,	Lane change, collision avoidance
		user defined		GloMoSim	multiple vehicles types, traffic intersections, speed control
STRAW [53]	×	Built-in	Microscopic	NS-2	Lane change, collision avoidance,
		models only			multiple vehicles types, speed control
STRAW [53]	×	Real and	Microscopic	SWANS	Lane change, speed control
		maps only
Vanet-	×	Both real	Microscopic	NS-2, QualNet,	Lane change, speed control
MobiSim [54]				OMNeT++	traffic intersections
				GloMoSim
PARAMICS [55]	✓	Both real and	Microscopic	OMNeT++,	Lane change, collision avoidance
		user defined		NS-2	multiple vehicles types, traffic intersections, speed control
VISSIM [56]	✓	Both real and	Microscopic and	NS-2, QualNet	Lane change, collision avoidance,
		user defined	mesoscopic		multiple vehicles types, traffic intersections, speed control
MoNoTrac [57]	×	Real maps	Microscopic	NS-2, NS-3,	Speed control, collision avoidance
		only		OMNeT++
SMARTS [58]	✓	Both real and	Microscopic	N/A	Lane change, collision avoidance
		user defined			multiple vehicles types, traffic intersections, Speed control
Traffsim [59]	✓	Both real and	Microscopic	N/A	Lane change, collision avoidance
		user defined			multiple vehicles types, traffic intersections, Speed control
MATSim [60]	✓	Both real and	Microscopic	N/A	Lane change, collision avoidance
		user defined			multiple vehicles types, traffic intersections, Speed control
DTALite [61]	✓	Real maps	Mesoscopic	N/A	Lane change, speed control, traffic
		only			intersections
MovSim [62]	✓	Built-in	Microscopic	N/A	Lane change, traffic intersections,
		maps only			multiple vehicles types, speed control
FreeSim [63]	×	Real maps	Microscopic and	N/A	Speed control
		only	macroscopic

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