3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Research Article

Efficient traffic simulator coupling in a distributed V2X simulation environment

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8640,
        author={David  Rieck and Bj\o{}rn  Sch\'{y}nemann and Ilja  Radusch and Christoph  Meinel},
        title={Efficient traffic simulator coupling in a distributed V2X simulation environment},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={V2X Communication Vehicle-2-X Communication Simulation VSimRTI Traffic Simulator Coupling},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8640}
    }
    
  • David Rieck
    Björn Schünemann
    Ilja Radusch
    Christoph Meinel
    Year: 2010
    Efficient traffic simulator coupling in a distributed V2X simulation environment
    SIMUTOOLS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8640
David Rieck1,*, Björn Schünemann2,*, Ilja Radusch2,*, Christoph Meinel3,*
  • 1: Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin, Germany.
  • 2: Technische Universität Berlin, OKS / Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin, Germany.
  • 3: University of Potsdam, Hasso-Plattner Institute, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Straße 2-3, 14482 Potsdam, Germany.
*Contact email: david.rieck@fokus.fraunhofer.de, bjoern.schuenemann@dcaiti.com, ilja.radusch@dcaiti.com, meinel@hpi.uni-potsdam.de

Abstract

For the simulation of all aspects of V2X Communication scenarios, different simulators have to be combined and an interaction among them at runtime of the simulation has to be enabled. Hence, we have developed the V2X Simulation Runtime Infrastructure (VSimRTI) which couples discrete event-based simulators, e.g. for communication network, traffic, and V2X application simulation. The flexibility of VSimRTI allows us to vary the composition of integrated simulators depending on the specific requirements of a scenario. Moreover, optimistic synchronisation mechanisms enable us to decrease simulation time. In this paper, we combine both traffic simulators VISSIM and SUMO. VISSIM is used to achieve a highly accurate simulation of the most interesting region, whereas the more efficient traffic simulator SUMO simulates surrounding areas. We shall show that this simulator coupling reduces the overall simulation time without any decrease in accuracy. This work has been carried out within the PRE-DRIVE C2X project.