VANETsim 2.0.2

There are many more simulators available for simulating VANETs. I would suggest using Veins: http://veins.car2x.org/

The easy tools that evey knows and to get support is to use ns2 or ns3. But you can use MATLAB simulator to get aqurate result. Because MATLAB use for case of mobile node distribuation , in addition its global simulator with multi purpose in all areas.

ns2 and omnet or opnet

Any latest version of VANETsim .

Opnet and qualnet.

you can this OPnet 17.6 software

http://telcoconsultant.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1071

It depends on what simulation and what parameters you want to simulate with VANET. If you want to simulate the physical layer in VANET, probably MATLAB or NS3 is suitable for some parameters. But if you want to simulate a higher layer than physical network, it could be Mobi SIM or VANET Sim fullfiled your required.

I would suggest NetSim (http://www.tetcos.com) and you can interface with both SUMO and MATLAB

I want to simulate localisation based on RSSI in Vanet. So, what is the best tool(s)?

Thanks.

Hello Bechar, You can try NetSim. And a similar WSN project on localization based on RSSI is available at http://tetcos.com/file-exchange.html, and you can read that documentation/code and try to apply it for vanets.

Vissim- Developped by University of Karlshruhe (For Windowss based System); has periodically update. ( Fully open source)

http://cgi.ptvgroup.com/cgi-bin/en/intern/tcs_download.pl

Customer ID : guest (outside university of Karlshruhe users)

VentOS- Developped by University of California, Davis (For Linux/ Unix based System); has periodically update. ( Fully open source)

http://maniam.github.io/VENTOS/#download

This tools are specially developped for only VANET based simulations. The users can design and develop any possible solutions for VANETS using these softwares. Fully graphical based simulation environment.

Thinks Sharma and Mahi for your repenses. i will try.

I agree with Wahyu Pamungkas, that no single simulator is best for all the use-cases in VAENTS. However, you opt to choose traffic and network simulators simultaneously for most of the parameters. You have to choose traffic simulator first hand to get mobility traces that you can import further to perform network simulations for several parameters. VanetmobiSIM, SUMU, nctuNS are to name the few for first catagory. Similarly, Opnet, Omnet++ and Matlab are the good examples of the later categories. I hope, it helps

You could look at https://tetcos.com/vanets.html and https://tetcos.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/folders/14000118424 for detailed information on NETSIM - SUMO - OSM Maps based VANET simulations

NETSIM is free to use or not. how can I use it for free?