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thanks Mr. Babu Ram. have you run any vanet project on it. 

You are asking wrto 2 which one is better. It is purely depending on what purpose you want to use the simulator. You cannot generalise the conclusion.

Actually, to simulate VANET, exploited software can be classified into three different categories- (a) vehicular mobility generators, (b) network simulators, and (c) VANET simulators.

Vehicular mobility generators are needed to increase the level of realism in VANET simulations. They generate realistic vehicular mobility traces to be used as an input for a network simulator. The inputs of the mobility generator include the road model, scenario parameters (i.e., maximum vehicular speed, rates of vehicle arrivals and departures, etc). The output of the trace details the location of each vehicle at every time instant for the entire simulation time and their mobility profiles. Examples are SUMO, MOVE, CityMob, STRAW, FreeSim, Netstream, and VanetMobiSim.

Network simulators perform detailed packet-level simulation of source, destinations, data traffic trans-mission, reception, background load, route, links,and channels. Examples are ns-2/3, GloMoSim, SNS, JiST/SWANS, and GTNetS.

Finally, VANET simulators provide both traffic flow simulation and network simulation. Examples are TraNS, NCTUns, GrooveNet,and MobiREAL.

Check NS-2 with SUM/MOVE, easy to use and easy in setup. Also read this survey articles about simulations.

Hope you will find your answer.

VSim may be useful software.

http://www.dcaiti.tu-berlin.de/research/simulation/  

Selecting the best simulator depends on many issues:

First, what do you want to do with the simulator, and what is your contribution?

Is the module, algorithm, protocol, etc you want to modify is available in that simulator or not?

Which programming language do you like to use for developing your contribution?

Do you need more than one technique to combine (e.g. MIPvs and WiMax) for setting up your simulation scenario, and are they available under one simulation and work properly under one version of that simulator?

Second, there things related to speed of execution, memory and CPU consumption and capability of network simulators. You may find good discussion about these issues in these articles:

http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2009/2009-weingaertner-simulator_comparison.pdf

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1307/1307.4129.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_network_simulator_is_better_NS2_or_QUALNET  

Resp Mr. Zaki 

                  I want to impliment a msg authentication scheme which incorporate the use of digital signatures . i have run move and ns2 , but i am not able to find how to implement my scheme on it, could u please help

Hi Ms. Ersimran,

see this blog it has implementation of digital signature in ns-2 explained in details:

https://dgr8swativekariya.wordpress.com/2012/07/

and this paper reviews digital signature in SAODV:

http://www.ijesrt.com/issues%20pdf%20file/Archives-2014/February-2014/63.pdf

regards,

NS2 is a traditional simulator for VANETs and requires knowledge of different languages and tools. If you are new in the area, I will suggest you to learn and use new simulators for VANETs such as Veins and EstiNet.

1. http://veins.car2x.org/

2. http://www.estinet.com/solutions.php?lv1=1&sn=5

With limited mobility requirements Qualnet Supports VANET.  you can try

Network simulator2 would be easy to implement VANET

Opnet,

NS3,

and Omnet ++

Omnet++ with sumo and Veins.

Below some useful links:

http://veins.car2x.org/tutorial/

http://omnet-tutorial.com/omnet-veins/

Highly depends on the modules that you will be using. Would use DSRC or LTE-A? Are you feeling comfortable working with C or more into C++? would you compare your results against already created simulation and models?

This article explains in details the differences and which simulator/emulator to use based on your project and research idea.

Ahmed, Hazem, Samuel Pierre, and Alejandro Quintero. "On The Verification and Realization of VANET Applications." International Journal of Sensors Wireless Communications and Control 6.2 (2016): 105-117.

and for vehicule localisation, what is rhe best way to simulate?

Thanks.

I would recommend you try a combination of SUMO with NetSim (http://www.tetcos.com).

Information on how these can be combined is available at https://tetcos.freshdesk.com/solution/folders/14000118424

List of Network Simulators:

• Ns2 (Network Simulator 2).
• Ns3 (Network Simulator 3).
• OPNET.
• OMNeT++.
• NetSim.
• REAL.
• QualNet.
• J-Sim

As per my experience NS-2 or 3 is better options.

NS-3 / NS-2 are extremely complicated. I would suggest you choose a simpler tool

I found NetSim to be very easy to use and understand when compared to NS3 or OMNET++. Lots of support from the user community also

NS3

VEINS is a very good one

I have used Omnet++ with sumo and Veins, but it is very complected process.

Yes indeed we have also found OMNET / VEINS / SUMO to be extremely difficult to figure out. Its breaks down even when trying to do the simplest of tasks. Therefore, it is quite difficult to use.

MATLAB is best due to clear graphics and easy to understand.

I have used Tetcos NetSim and would recommend it. This is the link to a recent paper we published using NetSim (https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/9/2191/pdf)

Matlab

NCTUNS IS BEST

Netsim or NS3

NS3

OSM with SUMO 1.20 and NS3.29

NetSim with SUMO

Our of my experience with simulations for networks. I would highly suggest using Ns-3. The platform is highly supported and it's very flexible to meet your needs. However, you will need good programming skills to use it.

Hai any one know about ubntu based simulation software named kentaki,if yes please reply.

According to me, the best choice would be NETSIM for all performing simulations in VANETS.