Progressing toward urban topology and mobility trace for Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET)

Mobile communication and intelligent transportation system (ITS) show a promising technology as it could enhance the traffic efficiency and promote on-road traffic safety. Vehicle Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is one of a notable example of successful wireless networking paradigm emerges from the combination of mobile communication and ITS. It allows wireless communication between vehicles and remote application. Many VANET related researches have been done in simulation rather than in real-world due to its inexpensive, repeatable and easily controlled experiment. Simulation of VANET can be divided into two types: network and mobility simulation. In order to develop a vehicular network service, a realistic mobility environment must be generated beforehand as it could greatly affect the performances of developed VANET protocol. In this paper, traffic simulator (SUMO) is used to generate realistic traffic of the city Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Different scenarios are generated to evaluate the performance of VANET on such realistic developed topologies.