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Survey of Vehicular Network Simulators: A Temporal Approach

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Abstract

Evaluating protocols and applications for Intelligent Transportation Systems is the first step before deploying them in the real world. Simulations provide scalable evaluations with low costs. However, to produce reliable results, the simulators should implement models that represent as closely as possible real situations. In this survey, we provide a study of the main simulators focused on Intelligent Transport Systems assessment. Additionally, we examine the temporal evolution of these simulators giving information that leads to an overview understanding of how long the scientific community takes to absorb a new simulator proposal. The conclusions presented in this survey provide valuable insights that help researchers make better choices when selecting the appropriate simulator to evaluate new proposals.

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, Brazilian research agency (CNPq), the Research Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) and the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP).

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Silva, M.J., Silva, G.I., Ferreira, C.M.S., Teixeira, F.A., Oliveira, R.A. (2019). Survey of Vehicular Network Simulators: A Temporal Approach. In: Hammoudi, S., Śmiałek, M., Camp, O., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 363. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26169-6_9

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