Vespa: Emulating Infotainment Applications in Vehicular Networks

Infotainment applications can provide new business opportunities when they´re used in vehicular networks. However, these applications are challenging by nature, and a testing platform is required to validate that they work properly. Existing simulation platforms focus mainly on providing a testing framework for safety applications that don´t require infrastructure. To address this, the Vehicular Emulations Platform for Real Applications (Vespa) was developed to allow for experiments with many vehicles running real-world applications with real-time requirements in complex network scenarios. To demonstrate Vespa´s usefulness, a use case on the performance of video-streaming applications is offered. In this use case, the applications are tested in highway conditions in which packet losses occur due to network layer handoffs.