Update and Evaluate Vehicular Simulation Framework for LTE and 802.11p in OMNeT++

Abstract: Today, the car industry has become one of the greatest users of both wireless and cellular technologies and is increasingly dependent especially in the area of wireless communication. Communication among vehicles is offering a lot of benefits and has testified improvement on safety, efficiency and possible automation of the traffic. A lot of research has been focused on measurement campaigns, by investigating different situation for communication between cars in traffic. Lately, a hot topic is the simulation of the communication among cars and the environment. Therefore the focus of this thesis has been on advancing these simulation for IEEE 802.11p and Long Term Evolution (LTE) by performing updates with new modules and performance metrics. One contribution of this thesis is exploring the simulation framework for DSRC and LTE known as VeinsLTE and performing updates to capture various environmental effects. These modules capture the attenuation effects on signal power caused by buildings, vehicles and other factors. Adopting the framework with these modules has offered a wider range for simulation and comparisons. Another aspect that this thesis has been focused on is V2V channel models, which are based on realistic measurements and make it possible to overcome some limitations of the simulation in different regions. Computation of performance metrics such as delay and throughput has been achieved. These performance metrics offer another scope for analysis and comparisons among the technologies LTE and DSRC. Simulations will be focused on investigating different scenarios by covering various geographical regions such as intersections, roundabouts and highways. Comparison of the analysis results with realistic measurements results will given to the simulation results a strong validation.