Seminar at UniRC – Jul 2012

Tutorial:
Simulating VANET and ITS
(using OMNeT++ and SUMO)

MJ (Thinus) Booysen
mjbooysen at sun dot ac dot za

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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Faculty of Engineering
 Presentation Overview

 History and background

 Why is VANET special?
 Vehicular networking vs. ITS
 What is required for simulation?
 Existing approaches
 Simulation packages
 Veins (OMNeT++ & SUMO)
 SUMO demo
 OMNeT++ demo
 Veins demo
 Remaining challenges
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 History and Background

 Traditional traffic simulations:

 Civil worked with vehicular traffic
 Road design

 Intersection

 E&E worked with network traffic

 Computer networks

 Mobile networks

 Recent developments:
 Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANET)
 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
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 Intra-car Inter-car Extra-car Networks Servers and
V2V V2I Consumers
Navigation

CAN bus

traffic management
ITS network
WAVE WAVE

Safety and
RSU
OBU
Emergency
detectors

Operators and end users

Servers and
databases
Audio-visual

Cellular
Wi-Fi
WIMAX
sources

Internet connectivity
Entertainment and
Internet
MOST

MM
ring
Displays

CAN Controller Area Network OBU On Board Unit

ISP Internet Service Provision RSU Road Side Unit (WAVE)
ITS Intelligent Transportation Systems V2I Vehicle to Infrastructure
MM MOST Master V2V Vehicle to vehicle
MOST Media Oriented Systems Transport Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WIMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WAVE Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments
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 Vehicular simulation: challenges, what’s different?

 V2I and V2V

 Mobility patterns
 Fast
 Unpredictable, but constrained.
 Broad range of applications
 Safety critical
 Infotainment
 Power usage

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 What is required for simulation?

 VANET:
 Accurate simulation of communications
 signal propagation
networking
 Accurate simulation of vehicle mobility
 Comms simulation use mobility info

 ITS:
 Same as VANET
 More applications support
 Comms simulation (application) affects mobility
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 Some approaches

 Mobility
 Fixed number of vehicles at constant speed in straight
line in the same direction
 Proprietary simulators (simple following, no overtaking)
 Generate traces with a proper simulator, save to file
 Limited scenarios and densities
 Highway

 Urban

 Communications
 Fixed range, if within range communications successful.
 Taking into account radio properties
 Interference
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 VANET simulation packages

Tool Advantages Disadvantages

Trafic and Network Simulator Flexibility and real world maps. No feedback is provided
(TraNs) (SUMO and ns-2). Integrated solution. from ns-2 to SUMO.
Development suspended
recently.
National Chiao Tung Single application with integrated NCTUns is UNIX-based
University network simulator GUI. Popular for VANET and only runs on Fedora.
(NCTUns) is a proprietary research. Limited support.
mobility and communications
simulator.
VanetMobiSim with ns-2. Flexible mobility models with No feedback is provided
micro-mobility and macro-mobility from ns-2 to
models. Maps can be imported VanetMobiSim.
from TIGER database. Separate simulators.
Vehicles in Network Flexibility and real world maps.
Simulation Active community with support.
(Veins), which integrates Full IEEE 802.11p
SUMO and OMNeT++ implementation. Integrated
solution.
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 Veins (SUMO & OMNeT) Simulation model

Highway routes OMNeT++ Metrics

OpenStreetMap
Highway map

Urban routes
Urban map
Application

MiXiM
HD traffic flows MAC layer
LD traffic flows PHY layer

SUMO TraCI Veins Mobility

Veins : veins.car2x.org/ (easy installation here)

OMNeT++ : www.omnetpp.org/ (easy thorough tutorial here)
MiXiM : mixim.sourceforge.net/
SUMO : sumo.sourceforge.net/
OpenStreetMap : www.openstreetmap.org/
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 SUMO Setup: Map: www.OpenStreetMap.org

rc.osm

net.net.xml

Road sections are called edges

Export map from web site, and convert to XML with SUMO’s netconvert
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netconvert --osm rc.osm
 SUMO setup: trips
Generate random trips (from A to B) from the road network (net.net.xml)
randomTrips.py -n net.net.xml -l -e 600 -o trips.trips.xml
trips.trips.xml

routes.routes.xml

Convert the trips to routes (what is between A and B) and traffic flow
duarouter -n net.net.xml –t trips.trips.xml -o routes.rou.xml
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 SUMO setup: simulation

Can also specify flows (in stead of single vehicles), vehicle types, different
following models, etc.
<vType id="vtype0" accel="2.6" decel="4.5" sigma="0.5" length="2.5"
minGap="2.5" maxSpeed="35" color="1,1,0"/>
<flow id="flow0" type="vtype" route="route0" begin="0" period="5"
number="200" departlane="random" departpos="base"/>

Configure the simulation by specifying the network, the routes, and the
duration in a config file.

sumo.sumo.cfg

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SUMO simulation

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 OMNeT++ Setup

 OMNeT provides the messaging platform for simulation.

 OMNeT is a modular discrete event simulation environment that can
be used to simulate nearly anything.
 All events in OMNeT are encapsulated as messages (simulation
events and simulation-control events).
 Modules are in C++ and configuration in NED files and an .ini file.
 Various frameworks exist to simulate networks on the OMNeT
platform. Two main frameworks:
 INET (more for higher layer protocols and applications)
 contains models for several wired and wireless networking protocols,
including UDP, TCP, SCTP, IP, IPv6, Ethernet, PPP, 802.11, MPLS, OSPF
 MiXiM (more for PHY and MAC simulation)
 radio wave propagation, interference estimation, radio transceiver power
consumption and wireless MAC protocols

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 OMNeT++ setup

 Connections between layers are done using “gates”.

 C++ files specify the behaviour of the modules
 The NED files specify how gates are connected.
 In the .ini file specifies parameters
 Transmitter power, receiver sensitivity, thermal noise, slot durations, etc.
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C++ module file: TraCIDemo.cc (application)

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 NED files (there are many)
In TraCIDemo.NED (application layer)

In Car.NED:

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 Initialization file

 In config.ini:

 For each node, you can also specify location and speed, managed
by the mobility module.

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 OMNeT++ simple mobility demo

 BaseNetwork example that ships with MiXiM installation, just run the
config.ini file (right click, run as OMNeT simulation)

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 Veins setup

 Veins connects SUMO and OMNeT++

 Veins uses a TCP connection and Python scripts to enable

SUMO to act as a mobility model in OMNeT++

 Python set up to wait for Veins (module in OMNeT++)

sumo-launchd.py -p 9999 -vv -c /c/user/src/sumo/bin/sumo.exe

 And OMNeT is configured to look for mobility module

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 Veins (OMNeT++ & SUMO) demo

 Demo that ships with Veins installation, just run the config.ini file
(Traci launch demo) (right click, run as OMNeT simulation)
 Only thing replaced are the SUMO net.net.xml and routes.rou.xml
files.

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 Remaining challenges

 Data dissemination
 Signal propagation with obstacles
 Multichannel management in IEEE 802.11p

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Questions or comments?

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