In Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET), high speed is the real features which leads to common breakdown, interference etc. VANET is a new communication model that permits the communication between vehicles moving at high speeds.
The VANET simulators are incorporated frameworks of networking and traffic simulators. It has IEEE 802.11p module built in it and written in C++. Similarly, QualNet is the complete set of tools for modeling large wireless and wired networks. It can be used for emulation and simulation to calculate the behavior and performance of VANET for design improvement, management and operation. QualNet also supports users to design new protocol models, improve new and existing models. It is also better simulator for ease of operation.
In Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET), high speed is the real features which leads to common breakdown, interference etc. VANET is a new communication model that permits the communication between vehicles moving at high speeds.
The VANET simulators are incorporated frameworks of networking and traffic simulators. It has IEEE 802.11p module built in it and written in C++. Similarly, QualNet is the complete set of tools for modeling large wireless and wired networks. It can be used for emulation and simulation to calculate the behavior and performance of VANET for design improvement, management and operation. QualNet also supports users to design new protocol models, improve new and existing models. It is also better simulator for ease of operation.
Qualnet's mobility models are rather limited. You want to use something like SUMO (http://sumo-sim.org/) to model vehicular movement and use that to provide node position information for QualNet. It is non-trivial - we have done this but it the code is not yet ready for publication.
It is best to start reading the SUMO documentation - there are many tutorials and examples on the SUMO web site. Installation is fairly straightforward. Linking it with Qualnet somewhat less so :-)
We currently cannot publish full source code for our work, but you can see some of the results in the attached publications.
Conference Paper Studying the Impact of the CORNER Propagation Model on VANET...
Conference Paper Experimental validation of the CORNER urban propagation mode...
One way to use the SUMO as a presimulator to generate the mobility files and then use them in Omnet++ which is also open source and widely used for simulation.
The following link may be useful to read
http://www.academia.edu/2462717/Vehicular_Ad-Hoc_Networks_Simulation_Using_OMNeT_and_SUMO
You might find the original version of coupling OMNeT++ and SUMO useful. It is called Veins and available under:
http://veins.car2x.org/
is there any updates on how to integrate Qualnet with SUMO. The main problem is on how to convert the generated mobility model from Sumo to a mobility model supported by Qualnet. I know that veins (Omnet++ and Sumo) is well used for simulating VANETs but I'm more interested to rely on Qualnet.
The latest version of Qualnet which is "Qualnet 7.4" supports 802.11p PHY and MAC protocols.
MOVE can be used for integrating the SUMO generated vehicle mobility into QualNet !
we have red flags for showing mobility pattern which can be helpful for VANETs
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