Artery: Extending Veins for VANET applications

Development and testing of novel Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs) based on Vehicle-2-X (V2X) communication is often supported by simulations. However, simulation models for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) can easily become very complex due to the diverse set of involved components such as vehicle mobility, radio propagation, network protocols and application behavior. Therefore, we present an extension to the V2X simulation framework “Vehicles in Network Simulation” (Veins) with a clear separation of concerns regarding network and application aspects. Because of distinctively modeled Facilities and Application layers, this approach enables the concurrent combination of multiple VANET application sets as well as the evaluation of their interdependencies. The proposed extension to Veins, named Artery, incorporates an implementation of the ETSI ITS-G5 protocol stack following the European specifications for V2X communication. State and perception data required for ADAS algorithms are collected and provided in an extensible manner for each vehicle. Thus, Artery represents a more holistic approach in testing novel VANET applications in a network simulation environment.