Research Article
Emulating Vehicular Ad hoc Networks for Evaluation and Testing of Automotive Embedded Systems
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261004, author={Manuel Schiller and Alois Knoll}, title={Emulating Vehicular Ad hoc Networks for Evaluation and Testing of Automotive Embedded Systems}, proceedings={Eighth EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS}, year={2015}, month={8}, keywords={vanet embedded system simulation testing evaluation network emulation}, doi={10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261004} }- Manuel Schiller
Alois Knoll
Year: 2015
Emulating Vehicular Ad hoc Networks for Evaluation and Testing of Automotive Embedded Systems
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261004
Abstract
The evaluation and testing of cooperative applications based on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) in real testbeds is difficult due to the need for repeatable scenarios and large-scale experiments. Therefore a novel virtualization-based framework is presented to evaluate automotive software in the context of emulated VANETs. The approach enables the precise and large-scale evaluation of real-world implementations through the synchronized execution of network and vehicle simulators as well as the applications encapsulated in virtual Electronic Control Units. This paper provides a detailed description of the framework's structure and its components as well as an validation of the proposed synchronization algorithm. The performance comparison with pure network simulation indicates that despite additional overhead large-scale experiments can be conducted without loss of accuracy.
