Simulation Platform for a VANET Using the TrueTime Toolbox: Further Result Toward Cyber-Physical Vehicle Systems

Research on Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) has received special attention in the last few years due to their particular characteristics as self-organization, scalability, easy deployment and low cost. Vehicle Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) is basically a special form of MANET, which is formed by a group of wireless nodes, which can dynamically form a network to exchange information without the necessity of using a fixed network infrastructure, which make them ideal for use in several applications such as environment sensors, vehicular communications, disaster rescue operations, air/land/navy defense and so on. In this paper a simulation platform for a VANET which integrates communications and control system to achieve stability using TrueTime 2.0 is presented. It is able to use wireless communications, AODV routing protocol, distributed event-based control and gives a graphical representation of communication components (nodes). Besides, given that a trusty communication guarantee the stability of the system and it achieve a consensus, special attention is paid in the wireless communication performance and the metrics of delivery rate, end-to-end delay and throughput. The simulation results represent the base for future development of collaborative control protocols for Cyber-Physical Vehicle Systems and show the applicability and usability of the proposed simulation platform in future works.