Analysis of Common Required Metrics for Vehicular Networks

The protocols for vehicular networks are mostly developed, tested and evaluated through simulations in network simulators first before implementing and experimenting them in the real-world. For simulating vehicular networks, various mobility datasets are made publicly available by SUMO that can be imported into network simulators (e.g., OMNeT++, NS-3). The development of protocols for vehicular networks requires analyzing some common metrics (such as distribution of vehicles, contact duration between vehicles and time to meet new neighbors). Therefore, researchers are high likely to implement and analyse these metrics as a first step. In this paper, we analyse the common required metrics for vehicular networks using network simulator OMNeT++ with Veins framework and SUMO vehicular mobility datasets of Ireland urban and highway scenarios for rush and non-rush hours. We have made our code available online at GitHub that will be time-saving for researchers who start developing protocols for vehicular networks. We believe such analysis results can help in designing communication or dissemination protocols in vehicular networks and understanding vehicular traffic for further applications.