---
_id: '6425'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Recently, many efforts have been made to develop more efficient Inter-Vehicle
    Communication (IVC) protocols for on-demand route planning according to observed
    traffic congestion or incidents, as well as for safety applications. Because practical
    experiments are often not feasible, simulation of network protocol behavior in
    Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) scenarios is strongly demanded for evaluating
    the applicability of developed network protocols. In this work, we discuss the
    need for bidirectional coupling of network simulation and road traffic microsimulation
    for evaluating IVC protocols. As the selection of a mobility model influences
    the outcome of simulations to a great deal, the use of a representative model
    is necessary for producing meaningful evaluation results. Based on these observations,
    we developed the hybrid simulation framework Veins (Vehicles in Network Simulation),
    composed of the network simulator OMNeT++ and the road traffic simulator SUMO.
    In a proof-of-concept study, we demonstrate its advantages and the need for bidirectionally
    coupled simulation based on the evaluation of two protocols for incident warning
    over VANETs. With our developed methodology, we can advance the state-of-the-art
    in performance evaluation of IVC and provide means to evaluate developed protocols
    more accurately.\r\n"
author:
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Sommer, Christoph
  id: '49154'
  last_name: Sommer
  orcid: 0000-0002-4336-7350
- first_name: Reinhard
  full_name: German, Reinhard
  last_name: German
- first_name: Falko
  full_name: Dressler, Falko
  id: '48097'
  last_name: Dressler
  orcid: 0000-0002-1989-1750
citation:
  ama: Sommer C, German R, Dressler F. Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic
    Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis. <i>IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing</i>.
    2011;10(1):3-15. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2010.133">10.1109/TMC.2010.133</a>
  apa: Sommer, C., German, R., &#38; Dressler, F. (2011). Bidirectionally Coupled
    Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis. <i>IEEE Transactions
    on Mobile Computing</i>, <i>10</i>(1), 3–15. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2010.133">https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2010.133</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Sommer_German_Dressler_2011, title={Bidirectionally Coupled Network
    and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis}, volume={10}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2010.133">10.1109/TMC.2010.133</a>},
    number={1}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing}, publisher={IEEE},
    author={Sommer, Christoph and German, Reinhard and Dressler, Falko}, year={2011},
    pages={3–15} }'
  chicago: 'Sommer, Christoph, Reinhard German, and Falko Dressler. “Bidirectionally
    Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis.” <i>IEEE
    Transactions on Mobile Computing</i> 10, no. 1 (2011): 3–15. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2010.133">https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2010.133</a>.'
  ieee: C. Sommer, R. German, and F. Dressler, “Bidirectionally Coupled Network and
    Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis,” <i>IEEE Transactions on Mobile
    Computing</i>, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 3–15, 2011.
  mla: Sommer, Christoph, et al. “Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic
    Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis.” <i>IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing</i>,
    vol. 10, no. 1, IEEE, 2011, pp. 3–15, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2010.133">10.1109/TMC.2010.133</a>.
  short: C. Sommer, R. German, F. Dressler, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
    10 (2011) 3–15.
date_created: 2018-12-30T10:54:47Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T07:03:04Z
doi: 10.1109/TMC.2010.133
intvolume: '        10'
issue: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 3-15
publication: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
publisher: IEEE
status: public
title: Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC
  Analysis
type: journal_article
user_id: '49154'
volume: 10
year: '2011'
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